Fault Lines
2019No country trades more on its image of natural beauty than New Zealand. There is no mistaking the Pure NZ brand of clean, green and unspoiled. Lurking beneath these calm waters is a very different story.
The stasis that characterises much of New Zealand’s urban environment is often disrupted by violent seismic activity, while the social landscape is fraught with disadvantage, exclusion, addiction and racial tension.
Fault Lines gives expression to this stasis. Through an examination of form that speaks of Polynesian adornment; the commonplace and oddly placed; the lived anxiety of seismic tremor; and the mediation of nature, the once familiar becomes strangely alien.
