Cruise the Collection
Fiona Pardington
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Inanga heitiki Y6521 2003 |
Fiona Pardington's photograph "Inanga Heitiki Y6521" (2003) was first
exhibited in her solo exhibition "te tohua, te orongonui" (the full moon,
the waning moon) at Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington from 24 June to 19 July
2003. It is part of her ongoing heitiki series in which she documents
heitiki from museum collections around New Zealand. The heitiki depicted in
this image is of unknown provenance and is now in the collection of Okains
Bay Museum in Banks Peninsula.
exhibited in her solo exhibition "te tohua, te orongonui" (the full moon,
the waning moon) at Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington from 24 June to 19 July
2003. It is part of her ongoing heitiki series in which she documents
heitiki from museum collections around New Zealand. The heitiki depicted in
this image is of unknown provenance and is now in the collection of Okains
Bay Museum in Banks Peninsula.
"Through the discipline of photographic still life, I retrace the fragile
limits of the speaking subject and in approaching the object with love, I
wish also to touch upon the incommensurate nature of our taonga,"
Fiona Pardington.
Courtesy of the artist and Bartley Nees Gallery.
