Rongo

Conor Clarke

Two Rooms
16 Putiki Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland

5 June - 11 July 2026

Opening preview Thursday 4 June
5.30 - 7.30 PM

Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography

The word Rongo is to hear, feel, smell, taste, and perceive; it is used to describe the senses – all except sight. In her new exhibition, Conor Clarke explores the sensory sea and land-scapes that the Kaikōura tītī navigate through. Conor presents photographs of sea and fog at the point where they become part of each other, affecting the distance one can see or the ability to see at all. Within this veiled, misty space, smells act as wayfinding markers that reflect the land and sea floor below. The resulting photographs evoke the tītī's ability to wayfind, forage and migrate across vast oceanic distances. Conor has collaborated with Lyttleton-based artist, researcher and independent perfumier Dr Jo Burzynska to create scents that accompany Rongo.

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