Please join us to mark the opening of Shifting Morphologies, an exhibition borne of a mixed media collaboration between photographer Tony Nyberg and artists Will Gresson and Iulia Boșcu.
The effects of climate change unsettle our sense of place, our Tūrangawaewae. Presenting visual and audio material gathered in Tairāwhiti in Aotearoa New Zealand, Shifting Morphologies features a four channel sound work constructed from field recordings made alongside photographs capturing the fragmented remnants left in the wake of significant flooding in 2021 and 2022. Water, long a symbol of renewal and life, can also be a relentless agent of devastation – eroding the controls we impose on the land, leaving behind fractured landscapes. This area of the country bears the brunt of increasingly extreme weather patterns due to global warming, and the burden of years of improvident policy making.
Storms rage and waters rise as monuments to our histories, vanishing, vanished, heavy with loss and vulnerability. By necessity, the region continues to manage ecological and environmental pressures that go unacknowledged in bigger cities. Shifting Morphologies presents to us this disconnection, the growing distance between people whose best chance to address climate change is to come together. It holds the tension between awe and fear, memory and disappearance, confronting the disorientation of a world slipping out of balance.
Exhibition opens: Thursday 3 July, 5.30pm, with refreshments by Liberty Breweries
Hours: 12 – 4pm, Tuesday – Saturday
Closes: Saturday 2 August
Special event: Friday 4 July, 8pm
Artists Will Gresson and Lia Boșcu present a live audio work, resonant with the themes of Shifting Morphologies. This special event will also include performances by Australian artist, Eamon Sprod (fka TARAB), and local icons MONSTERWITCH.
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Artists Iulia Boșcu (b. 1990, Romania) and Will Gresson (b. 1987, Aotearoa New Zealand) are a collaborative duo, active since 2016. They work across multiple disciplines involving visual art. publishing and sound with a focus on climate and environmental tensions. Collage and collected ephemera occupy a central role in the duo’s working methodology, delving into relationships between human memory (past and present)and its intersections with the natural world.
An archive of their work is available on withoutappeal.org
Tony Nyberg bio
Tony Nyberg is a photographer based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and co-founder of photobook publisher back_space_books. His photography is directed towards the evolving landscape and our collective and personal relationships with it. With a keen attentiveness to both the environmental and cultural impacts on both urban and rural ecologies in Aotearoa through climate change, colonial land use and environmental memory loss, his work documents the tension that reverberates in response to these fractured topographies. His images ask us to navigate our own culpability and responsibilities as conflicted guardians of these shifting lands.
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