Ruth Buchanan, Julian Dashper, Sonya Lacey, Neil Pardington, Ann Shelton, Shannon Te Ao
Curated by Louise Rutledge
10 February — 4 March 2017
Neil Pardington, Pacific Store #1 (Samoan Clubs) Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 2006
C-print photograph, framed, 1054 x 1245mm
Drawing from Council's City Art Collection, Take that which has passed focuses on six contemporary artists’ responses to the ways in which knowledge is held, collected and communicated.
Mayor Justin Lester and curator Louise Rutledge
Expanding on notions of the archive, the works in the exhibition consider artistic legacies, the landscape, and online repositories as historic and material resources.
Louise's exhibition concept started from a specific work. "When first viewing the works in collection, I was really drawn to Ruth Buchanan's Normal Desires, and wanted to tease out how the idea of desire aligns with archival impulses, that is the desire to preserve, record, and bring past histories into the present."
Julian Dashper
Untitled (Self Portrait as Donald Judd), 2008
Digital print on cotton rag paper, framed, 700 x 500 mm
Normal Desires,Ruth Buchanan Normal Desires, 2007
C-type print on dibond edition 1/3, framed, 1680 x 1180 mm
