Join us on 30 MAY at 4pm, for the opening of:

COSMOLOGIES
Nikau Hindin and Naminapu Maymuru-White
 
all the forest stands with you
Jonathas de Andrade, Anetta Mona Chişa, Ayesha Green, Arapeta Hākura, Emily Karaka, Agnieszka Polska, Mathilde Rosier, Zheng Bo
 
Herehere
Kauri Hawkins, Sione Faletau, Raymond Sagapolutele

Cosmologies brings together the work of Nikau Hindin and Naminapu Maymuru-White into a dialogue shaped by the night sky. Across Indigenous knowledge systems celestial bodies are not distant matter but living presences, they are repositories of law, memory, navigation, spirit energy and ecological care.  In this exhibition, cosmology is not metaphor but method: a way of mapping relations across generations and more-than-human worlds. A way to locate our own position in this world and in this life. 

all the forest stands with you traces the entangled relationalities between the human and the more-than-human world. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices connect to a place where whenua, water, air, and ancestral presence are not easily reduced to backdrop or resource, but remain active participants in shared worlds. Taking this condition not as an illustration, but as a proposition: to revisit, reevaluate, and reimagine the status quo of our being in a world that is never solely human.

Herehere
(verb) to tie up, bind, shackle, restrain.
(noun) a captive, a prisoner, the accused.
Tāmaki Makaurau is often described as a meeting place — Tāmaki of a hundred lovers — a site of convergence and desire. It  is also highly contested land, a site of seizure, and of control. The city’s history is not only one of movement and exchange, but one of stolen land and enforced belonging. The cords that bind Tāmaki Makaurau together have also been used to dispossess or shackle the people here.

Light snacks will be provided by Florets Bakery and The Modern Preserver, with beverages by Black Sands Beer, Everyday Wine, and Almighty. We look forward to welcoming you.

Image Credits | Naminapu Maymuru-White, Milŋiyawuy, 2024 (detail). © Naminapu Maymuru-White. Tia Collection. Image courtesy of the artist and Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney, AU. Photography by Aaron Anderson | Zheng Bo: 𝘗𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢4 (2019). Courtesy of the Artist and Kiang Malingue