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NOT ONE MORE ACRE!
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NOT ONE MORE ACRE!

By Erin Lee.

Not One More Acre! is a photographic exhibition that commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Bastion Point occupation by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei. Once visitors navigate their way through the sprawling Maori Court the exhibition can be found in an alcove flanking Hotunui, the museum’s whare whakairo…

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The Descent Into Abstraction Is Easy.
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The Descent Into Abstraction Is Easy.

By Petra Bogle

No image is truly abstract. No such image has or ever will exist. There are degrees of abstraction, ranging from what has some representational form, and discernable meaning to the closest to true abstraction, where the elements of an image convey nothing but their own innate visual qualities, and the meaning discernable only through subsidiary material….

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Mona Hatoum’s Home: A Fear Of The Everyday
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Mona Hatoum’s Home: A Fear Of The Everyday

By Monica Wang.

When the ‘everyday’ is unfamiliar to you, when in fact a sense of displacement arises from your surroundings, the ‘everyday’ starts to speak less about the banal and more about alienation. Curators David A. Ross and Nicholas Serota have hypothesised that to look at the everyday is to “recognize that in fact it’s a reflection of a mind awake and a mind asleep”….

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