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Ayesha Green

AYESHA GREEN

The Radical Utopia of the Great Pacific Jhana Millers 14 March–6 April 2024 Wellington
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Jhana Millers presents The Radical Utopia of the Great Pacific, a solo exhibition by Ayesha Green that grapples with the coalition government’s attack on Māori. While at first glance this series of paintings might seem like a departure for Ayesha, as with all her works, she asks us to consider the images we consume and the power inherent within them.

Through appropriating the iconic Disney Princess Ariel, this new body of work attempts to represent Māori concerns without treating Māori bodies as consumable images. In this way, Ariel, and her friends in the underwater kingdom, become a vessel to explore the complexities of what it might mean to be Māori living in Aotearoa today.

The Radical Utopia of the Great Pacific challenges us to think about how we tell our own stories and how those stories give us space to cope, to grieve, to work together, and to have hope.

An essay by Francis McWhannell accompanies the exhibition.

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About the Artist

“In her studio-based practice, Ayesha Green sustains a provocative engagement with processes of reproduction. By her own admission, Green utilises mimicry and copying to undermine the authority of symbolic objects, questioning the authenticity of their claims to power. While giving precedence to source material from the era of first contact between Māori and Pakēha, Green continues to draw on a wide range of references. Attempting to transmute the power of inherited objects and images by establishing new reading’s, Green thus pushes back at European-centric practices of anthropology and classification, and the demonstrable military and cultural domination of our shared colonial history.”

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Jhana Millers Art Gallery was established in 2018 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington to showcase compelling and innovative contemporary art and promote emerging local talents. Housed in the listed Mibar Building, fitted with large windows and a concrete ceiling, the gallery provides space for solo and curated group exhibitions.

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Level 1, Mibar Building
85 Victoria Street
Wellington
New Zealand
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Wednesday–Friday: 11am–5pm
Saturday: 11am–4pm
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Wellington Level 1, Mibar Building, 85 Victoria Street
Jhana Millers contemporary art gallery in Wellington New Zealand
Jhana Millers
Level 1, Mibar Building, 85 Victoria Street, Wellington, New Zealand
0211670896
http://www.jhanamillers.com

Opening hours
Wednesday–Friday: 11am–5pm
Saturday: 11am–4pm
or by appointment
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