Te Waipounamu - the South Island, Mahika Kai - Industry

Te Waipounamu - the South Island, Mahika Kai - Industry

Mark Adams, Chris Corson-Scott

Trish Clark Gallery
142 Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland

14 July - 1 August 2020

Opening 6pm Tuesday 14 July, 2020

Photograph by Mark Adams

Photograph by Chris Corson-Scott

I'm very pleased to present this exhibition bringing together work from Mark Adams' seminal 1988-1992 series Land of Memories, and photographs made over the last four years from Chris Corson-Scott's ongoing project photographing Aotearoa.

Adam’s work presciently foreshadowed leading present day thinking on decolonization, while also being a complex critique of settler photography and the colonial gaze. In new photographs, Corson-Scott ventures further to the most remote early European industrial sites in Te Waipounamu, asking us to question the equivalences in modern economies, heightened by the urgent need for a move towards sustainability to address climate change and decolonization.

Thanks to Two Rooms for Mark Adams' participation.