Translating the Real

Translating the Real

Frankie Ayers, Ziggy Bond, Caryline Boreham, Wendy Bornholdt, David Cowlard, Karlene Groves, John Miller and Local Time Collective, Izzy O’Hagan, Anna Suante, Sam Waddell.
Curated by Allan McDonald

Toi o Wairaka
School of Creative Industries at Unitec – Te Pūkenga
Building 108 — 139 Carrington Road, Mount Albert, Auckland

16 May - 5 June 2025
Opening 15 May , 5.30 - 7.00pm

Every photograph is a translation from the real. In this process the real becomes an artifact, one that’s been mediated by the choices of the photographer to a greater or lesser extent. Artists working with archives and the photographic document have long recognised the tension between the subjective way memory is socially constructed while attempting to stay true to the world around them. This exhibition looks at artists working across the archive, the document and the subjective.