{"product_id":"pono-hariata-ropata-tangahoe","title":"Pono | Hariata Ropata-Tangahoe","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\"\u003ePono\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a survey exhibition by renowned \u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #212121; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eartist Hariata Ropata Tangahoe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; background: white;\"\u003e(Hapū O Kaitangata ki tuku rākau Waikanae no Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa\/Te Arawa, Tūwharetoa, Celtic, Italian)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #212121; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, that spans different phases and aspects of her longstanding artistic practice. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eRopata Tanghaoe approaches her work less as a record of the past than as a way of bringing relationships into the present. Whakapapa is the starting point, but the work does not stop at genealogy. Oral histories, inherited stories, memory, dreams and intuition are allowed to overlap. The portrait becomes a place where a person can be remembered, imagined and encountered again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #212121; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePono\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #212121; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e brings together these strands through a collection of paintings and sculptural works that explore the ways identity, connection and memory are carried across generations. Moving between the figurative and the material, Ropata Tangahoe considers how we understand those who came before us, and how their presence continues to shape our relationships with ourselves, our whānau and the world around us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Uru","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68168302330148,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0899\/1637\/5332\/files\/H.jpg?v=1794539869","url":"https:\/\/teuru.org.nz\/products\/pono-hariata-ropata-tangahoe","provider":"Te Uru","version":"1.0","type":"link"}