Weird Fishes

Weird Fishes

Cathy Carter

Wallace Arts Centre - The Pah Homestead
72 Hillsborough Rd, Hillsborough

3 June - 25 July 2021

Opening: 6pm Wednesday 2 June

Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography

Cathy Carter, Immersion Emergence #3, 2017

Weird Fishes considers the primordial relationship between water and humans. Through Carter’s imaginings, the exhibition considers ‘weird fishes’ as a metaphor for human beings, referencing our origins in the oceans and life’s beginning in a liquid pool. Carter’s photography investigates our complex relationship to water by playing with perception, perspective and geography to create new ways of experiencing these spaces. Weird Fishes also explores our individual and collective responses to the threat facing these fluid ecosystems in the Anthropocene. As ‘weird fishes’ we have an opportunity to immerse ourselves in this liquid world upon which we remain utterly dependent.