ITI | TAME ITI & BIRGIT KRIPPNER | EXHIBITION AND OPENING | MELANIE ROGER GALLERY
OPENING: Tuesday 26 January 2016, 5.30-7.30pm
EXHIBITION: 27 January - 6 February 2016
ITI – the Tūhoe meaning of which is “humble or in the background” - is a new exhibition of paintings by TAME ITI and photography by BIRGIT KRIPPNER. This ongoing project comprises photographs during Krippner’s regular visits with Ngāi Tūhoe a Māori iwi of New Zealand, also known as “the children of the mist”. Work in this series was previously exhibited in Wellington in February 2015, and in San Francisco at the Harvey Milk Photography Center, in April 2015.
During the colonial period the Crown confiscated Te Urewera, Tūhoe’s ancestral homeland in the eastern North Island. In the 20th century the Tūhoe people suffered extreme social deprivation – ravaged by famine and disease. Especially hard hit were the children — school records from the 1920s and 1930s show that 75% of those who died were less than 25 years old.
Despite this adversity, the Tūhoe people have demonstrated the mana to preserve their Māori identity like few other iwi — including the continued and uninterrupted use of their native language by a very high percentage of their population.
Krippner’s photos in this exhibition document a very important time in Tuhoe’s history. Tūhoe’s 2014 treaty settlement with the Crown returned Te Urewera, the spiritual home of the Tūhoe people, and marks the transition from grievance to a future promising greater opportunity and self-determination.
Krippner’s photographs provide an intermit lens on Tame Iti, the Tuhoe people and Te Urewera, and serves as a document of the promise of new beginnings.
www.birgitkrippner.com
Note: Further images will be added as they become available.
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Venue and address
Melanie Roger Gallery, 226 Jervois Rd, Herne Bay, 1011 Auckland, New Zealand
- Tue26.01.201617:30
26. January 2016
ITI | TAME ITI & BIRGIT KRIPPNER | EXHIBITION AND OPENING | MELANIE ROGER GALLERY
This event in Auckland (Ponsonby) was published by Melanie Roger Gallery.