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Selina Foote

SELINA FOOTE

The Balcony Two Rooms 15 August–27 September 2025 Auckland
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The design for The Balcony—Selina Foote’s new series of abstract works—began with familiar nineteenth century paintings, gathered from reproductions found in art books. From here, through a system of self-prescribed rules, Selina sets out to radically defamiliarise the original image. The formal qualities of line and the use of restricted colour now hold only the barest relation to the originals. And yet, the materiality of painting, lost in the technologies of reproduction, has been retrieved, while also offering a series of images that possess their own seductive sovereignty.

If the viewer so desires, small puzzles are waiting to be untangled. Selina provides a hint in the title of the show, The Balcony, which leads from Manet back to Goya, to affairs and shadowy forms lurking in the dark, to a sunlit Morisot on the balcony, and to the continuing fascination of younger artists, such Magritte. Her web of lines flow back through European art history hinting at figuration, patterning, and the pull of mimetic desire.

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Two Rooms is a contemporary art exhibition venue located in a converted warehouse in Central Auckland, New Zealand. Opened in August 2006, Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects by leading International and New Zealand contemporary artists. The building houses two exhibition spaces, the Project Room and the Long Room.

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16 Putiki Street
Newton
Auckland
New Zealand
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Tue - Fri, 11am - 6pm
Sat, 11am - 3pm
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Auckland 16 Putiki Street, Newton
Two Rooms contemporary art gallery in Auckland New Zealand
Two Rooms
16 Putiki Street, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand
+64 9 360 5900
http://www.tworooms.co.nz

Opening hours
Tue - Fri, 11am - 6pm
Sat, 11am - 3pm
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