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Artist:
Michael Parekowhai (New Zealand)
Michael
Parekowhai is a Maori artist who is
continually producing new ways of representing the theatre and
pathos of identity politics. A mound of carved and
black-lacquered Arum lilies cascades to the floor from his
concert grand piano. Piled with flowers the piano resembles a
funerary casket but also signifies an overflow of feeling
toward an absent diva whose performance has just ended. While
acknowledging the reality of a Paradise Lost in the wake of
colonial history, The Story of a New Zealand River is
charged with an excess of yearning and a celebratory fullness.
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The Story of a New Zealand River
2001
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