Exhibitions

_{Image: Michael Mahne Lamb, Structure I (23002-11), 2024 (detail), courtesy of the artist.}

Based on the recent namesake exhibition at City Gallery Wellington, Michael Mahne Lamb's Through Points probes the boundaries of photography and sculpture. Working both with and against traditions of architectural, street, and conceptual photography, Lamb presents a body of analogue black-and-white prints, each enlarged to a point where the prints flex under their own weight and the film grain becomes highly pronounced. Presented with unique acrylic and aluminium supports, Lamb seeks to embody both physical and psychological experiences of the built environment.

_{Michael Mahne Lamb is a Te Whanganui-a-Tara based artist, and co-director of photobook publisher Bad News Books. He completed an MFA at the University of Hartford in Connecticut in 2022, and the exhibition includes selected earlier works developed during Lamb's studies.}

_{Image: Matavai Taulangaū}

Please join us Thursday 22 August, 5–7pm to celebrate the launch of It takes the love of the living and the dead by Quishile Charan.

It takes the love of the living and the dead is an expansive solo exhibition by Quishile Charan. Staged across two gallery spaces, and nightly on the Wai Ngutu Kākā’s outdoor projection space, the exhibition presents an accumulation of Charan's making practice developed throughout her PHD studies. Charan's practice is firmly grounded in an Indo-Fijian knowledge framework; drawing on generations of craft, resistance, world-building, and kahaani (storytelling).

Charan has previously exhibited at various reputable contemporary art institutions including Artspace Aotearoa, Tāmaki Makaurau; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; and Kunsthalle Wien Museum. In 2021 Charan's work was presented at the 13^th Gwangju Biennial.