Bruce Connew: A Vocabulary

Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, 420 Titirangi Road, Titirangi, Auckland

Wednesday 27 January 2021 – Sunday 14 February 2021 10:00am – 4:30pm

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Sat 5 Dec 2020, 10:00am–4:30pm
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Sat 6 Feb 2021, 10:00am–4:30pm
Sun 7 Feb 2021, 10:00am–4:30pm
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Tue 9 Feb 2021, 10:00am–4:30pm
Wed 10 Feb 2021, 10:00am–4:30pm
Thu 11 Feb 2021, 10:00am–4:30pm
Fri 12 Feb 2021, 10:00am–4:30pm
Sat 13 Feb 2021, 10:00am–4:30pm
Sun 14 Feb 2021, 10:00am–4:30pm
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Where: Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, 420 Titirangi Road, Titirangi, Auckland

Restrictions: All Ages

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Admission: Free

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Exhibitions at Te Uru

Listed by: Te Uru

I step mindfully onto the farmland to photograph a panorama of the battle site from both Māori and Pākehā points of view. After several footsteps, and with some bafflement, I stop dead in my tracks at a strange sensation deep inside my belly, which today I’m still unable clearly to throw light on. History was here, I grasp that, but this was out of that range. Does earth hold memory, and deliver that memory when the gravity is ripe?

Over several recent years, photographer and artist Bruce Connew has roamed the many memorials and gravestones of Aotearoa’s colonial wars to seek out the texts on these testaments to folly. A vocabulary of colonisation.

These remnants are scattered across mostly Te Ika-a-Māui North Island, residual memory, misremembered, not remembered. And there are those who know the Imperial story only too well.

A Vocabulary is an abstract, narrative selection of images from an artist book of the same title published concurrently with the exhibition. A Vocabulary (Vapour Momenta Books, 2021) is an artist book designed by Catherine Griffiths and Bruce Connew, with he mōteatea and essay by Dr. Rangihīroa Panoho. Copies will be available from Te Uru’s shop.