Calendar
Calendar
The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Fiona Connor and Emma McIntyre, Oceans of Time
Château Shatto, Los Angeles, USA
10 December 2022 —
04 February 2023
“I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”—Francis Ford Coppola, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 1992.
The gelid paradox of the vampire—in which life is invited into eternity through its cold suspension in death—is a negative construct that is familiar to artworks and their states of being.
Oceans of Time is a group exhibition that follows what circulates in and around the mythological and metaphorical imaginings of vampirism and runs into questions of suspension, duplication, necromancy, desire, and the nocturnal.
“I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”—Francis Ford Coppola, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 1992.
The gelid paradox of the vampire—in which life is invited into eternity through its cold suspension in death—is a negative construct that is familiar to artworks and their states of being.
Oceans of Time is a group exhibition that follows what circulates in and around the mythological and metaphorical imaginings of vampirism and runs into questions of suspension, duplication, necromancy, desire, and the nocturnal.
Fiona Connor, Rooms I Have Keys For
The Finley, Los Angeles, USA
23 October 2022 —
06 February 2023
When Fiona Connor stays at a friend's house, she's navigating material economic conditions and prioritising relationships and community as she travels from place to place. Written in graphite on the walls of the gallery (in an apartment building) are three notes for the artist staying at someone's home while they are away and three sets of keys given for her use with a photo of the keys inside the space they open. She is attuned to hand-offs. She preserves signs of generosity, kindness, and nomadism. She collects and archives handmade or specific objects. By sharing and representing highly personal ephemera, she tells us about the pace, flexibility, and tonality of her life, the lightness of her being and the value of warmth.
When Fiona Connor stays at a friend's house, she's navigating material economic conditions and prioritising relationships and community as she travels from place to place. Written in graphite on the walls of the gallery (in an apartment building) are three notes for the artist staying at someone's home while they are away and three sets of keys given for her use with a photo of the keys inside the space they open. She is attuned to hand-offs. She preserves signs of generosity, kindness, and nomadism. She collects and archives handmade or specific objects. By sharing and representing highly personal ephemera, she tells us about the pace, flexibility, and tonality of her life, the lightness of her being and the value of warmth.
André Hemer, Phenomena
LUIS DE JESUS, Los Angeles, USA
17 September —
29 October 2022
André Hemer’s newest body of work, and his third solo exhibition with the gallery, was conceived while the artist was in residence at the SARP Foundation in Sicily during 2022 – a programme which facilitates artists to develop work onsite at Palazzo Previtera, built in 1649 at the foothills of Mount Etna. The works in this exhibition represent this beautiful but complex environment as both a moment in time, but also as a palimpsest of nature and contemporary artefact; incorporating the backdrop of the continually smoking volcano, a European heatwave, as well as the occasional sandstorm carried across the Mediterranean from the Sahara.
André Hemer’s newest body of work, and his third solo exhibition with the gallery, was conceived while the artist was in residence at the SARP Foundation in Sicily during 2022 – a programme which facilitates artists to develop work onsite at Palazzo Previtera, built in 1649 at the foothills of Mount Etna. The works in this exhibition represent this beautiful but complex environment as both a moment in time, but also as a palimpsest of nature and contemporary artefact; incorporating the backdrop of the continually smoking volcano, a European heatwave, as well as the occasional sandstorm carried across the Mediterranean from the Sahara.
Fiona Amundsen, The Medium is the Message: Flags and Banners
The Wende Museum of Cold War, Los Angeles, USA
10 April —
23 October 2022
Originally used to identify soldiers in battle and ships in international waters, flags have represented large geographic territories since the rise of the nation-state beginning in the late eighteenth century. Like monuments and national anthems, they intend to create a sense of identity based on a shared past, present, and future.
However, not only the powers that be use flags and banners. Artists have repurposed flags to change or subvert their original meaning for decades, while protestors and counterculture movements worldwide have capitalized on their strong symbolic value and identity-shaping qualities. The Medium is the Message combines Cold War-era political flags from communist countries with contemporary artworks offering critical reflection on the here and now, including Aotearoa artist Fiona Amundsen's work on the topic of surveillance.
Originally used to identify soldiers in battle and ships in international waters, flags have represented large geographic territories since the rise of the nation-state beginning in the late eighteenth century. Like monuments and national anthems, they intend to create a sense of identity based on a shared past, present, and future.
However, not only the powers that be use flags and banners. Artists have repurposed flags to change or subvert their original meaning for decades, while protestors and counterculture movements worldwide have capitalized on their strong symbolic value and identity-shaping qualities. The Medium is the Message combines Cold War-era political flags from communist countries with contemporary artworks offering critical reflection on the here and now, including Aotearoa artist Fiona Amundsen's work on the topic of surveillance.
Fiona Connor, My muse is my memory, an archive of Closed Down Clubs
Château Shatto, Los Angeles, USA
19 March —
30 April 2022
Château Shatto is delighted to present Fiona Connor’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, My muse is my memory, an archive of Closed Down Clubs. For over a decade, Fiona Connor has evolved a sculptural language that unsettles objects and environments by reproducing them. Her practice has continually invested in sculpture as a site wherein the formal, social, psychological and discursive properties of objects can be newly animated and observed.
Initialized by Connor five years ago, Closed Down Clubs is an ongoing archive composed of one-to-one reproductions of doors that once stood as the threshold for businesses, venues and community centers. Encountered in situ by Connor, these sites are carefully documented and faithfully re-rendered into the form of autonomous, freestanding sculpture, each of which echo and stand in memoriam to the communities and spaces they replicate, and once gave way to.
Château Shatto is delighted to present Fiona Connor’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, My muse is my memory, an archive of Closed Down Clubs. For over a decade, Fiona Connor has evolved a sculptural language that unsettles objects and environments by reproducing them. Her practice has continually invested in sculpture as a site wherein the formal, social, psychological and discursive properties of objects can be newly animated and observed.
Initialized by Connor five years ago, Closed Down Clubs is an ongoing archive composed of one-to-one reproductions of doors that once stood as the threshold for businesses, venues and community centers. Encountered in situ by Connor, these sites are carefully documented and faithfully re-rendered into the form of autonomous, freestanding sculpture, each of which echo and stand in memoriam to the communities and spaces they replicate, and once gave way to.