Widely regarded as one of Australia’s most significant and enduring contemporary artists, Marion Borgelt makes her highly anticipated New Zealand debut with new work from three of her most celebrated series: Lunar, Liquid Light, and Strobe. Borgelt’s multidisciplinary practice is distinguished by its sustained investigation into cosmology, optics, time, and the natural world; works that move fluidly across scale, form, and medium, engaging with the fundamental forces that shape our understanding of the universe. Her debut presentation at Aotearoa Art Fair marks an exceptional opportunity to encounter the full breadth and ambition of her evolving vision.
Life cycles and nature are conceptualised in Borgelt’s intriguing, Liquid Light: Butterfly Series. The life cycle and flutter of butterfly wings is referenced through Borgelt’s expert, delicate use of Belgian linen where exquisite colours create an intriguing and mesmerising textile work.
Lisa Reihana is celebrated internationally as an artist, producer, and cultural interlocutor, she presents new images from Maramatanga and Nomads of the Sea, works that continue her groundbreaking inquiry into contemporary photographic and cinematic languages, and the complex intersections of identity, history, place, and community. A major figure in Pacific and indigenous art discourse, Reihana’s practice has earned her an outstanding international reputation. Her iconic film in Pursuit of Venus [infected] will screen at the fair, accompanied by images from the series. With all editions now sold, Artist Proof 1 is the sole remaining primary market opportunity from this landmark work.
Quills is a photograph from Lisa Reihana’s series Nomads of the Sea – a richly layered narrative that follows directly from her acclaimed Venice Biennale work in Pursuit of Venus [infected]. Nomads of the Sea weaves historical fact with fiction to explore the tensions between cultural leadership, spiritual custom and egotistical desire in the face of foreign political challenge in the 1800’s New Zealand, told through the eyes of two formidable female protagonists.
