Studies for a Keepsake is a new exhibition at Gus Fisher Gallery. Tracing the lives and work of pioneering French artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, the exhibition is the first time these artists have been shown in Aotearoa.
Working in writing, photography, collage, performance, and sculpture, and associated with the Surrealist movement in the 20th century, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore were visionary artists, activists, collaborators and lifelong partners. As gender non-conforming artists, they defied the social norms of the time. For Cahun and Moore, their art was a form of resistance against the context they were living in, defined by warfare, uncertainty, exile, genocide, and fascist political agendas, and the social norms that followed.
Their work was virtually forgotten until its rediscovery in the 1990s, paralleling the rise of postmodern feminism, as part of this expansion of understanding of identity politics – acknowledging gender as performative rather than fixed, and refusing essentialist feminism. Showing their work in Aotearoa today, Cahun and Moore’s legacy lives on through their powerful art making and stories of resistance that continue to resonate with viewers a century later.
Sof had a kōrero with curator Lisa Beauchamp about the exhibition, and the lives and work of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.
Riding the high of the Aotearoa Music Awards, Sofie steers the show solo with 100% NZ tracks, to round off NZ Music Month! Tune in for some new and classic kiwi tracks, and chats about the AMAs too. Ka mutu pea!
brunelle dias primbs is a painter whose practice explores the notions of the extended self by pointing the lens outwards onto her own personal surroundings and extended environments. Examining her personal orbit, and allowing these threads of connections to form between moments and places in her life.
In her current exhibition on at Grace Aotearoa, mysterium rationis dias primbs presents a beautiful body of paintings that circulate around her recent family travels. Caught in between moments of awe and admiration, while also finding herself in places of critique on these wider notions of tourism and travel.
The work itself draws from these diaristic images taken by dias primbs on her travels. Imagery of galloping horses, cherubs, monkeys in trees and frescos—humming throughout the show pulling the viewer into this space of temporality. Sitting between the space of the recorded image, and the artist's own memory and feelings of that place.
Maya caught up with brunelle dias primbs about the exhibition and overall practice.
Merlia de Ridder is a pop folk artist who heavily brings elements of classical roots and swingy jazz.
Merlia played an amazing set this morning showcasing two tracks! one being her latest single 'Sicily' which came out in march this year aswell as her next single 'Magic Women'!
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