Maraea Timutimu: He kāwai whenua He kāwai whakapapa
Maraea Timutimu's exhibition, He kāwai whenua He kāwai whakapapa addresses the centrality of whenua within mātauranga Māori and the ways it can connect us to our stories, histories, identities and whakapapa. For her exhibition at Tauranga Art Gallery, Timutimu produced a suite of large-scale colour photographs that are a play on portraiture; stones and rocks are collected from the waterways of her maternal and paternal kāinga at Matapihi, Tauranga Moana, and Rūātoki, Eastern Bay of Plenty. They are composed into totemic forms that poetically stand in for people and places that are important to the artist. Her work provides a unique insight into the connectedness of whenua and whakapapa through a Māori lens.
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