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Motukā by @vicktoriajohnson
Motukā - a transliteration of motor-car.
Vicktoria is a multi disciplinary designer of Māori Niue heritage, based in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She creates glyphs as mnemonics, these marks help her to remember her reo. She calls them; Tāmata Reo which is a collective of pictographs. Extending indigenous forms of writing and functioning as an educational tool. Tāmata Reo seeks to encourage positive attitudes towards Māori Pacific language through art and design.
Storyteller.
Three portraits by three artists convey the magic that storytelling holds within our cultures.
The continued sharing of history and folklore strengthens our connections to each other and our islands.
Words by Momoe Tasker
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This project is made in collaboration with @interislandcollective and @vfdalston and curated by the artists involved. The set decoration honours our ancestors and cultures with elements of plaiting, weaving, Tapa, dance, clothing and the iridescence of shell and feather.
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Her photographic work and art writings respond to the physicality of objects and the atmosphere of place. Her practice maps the spaces between authority and authorship and concealment and imagination.
For October, as part of a wider exhibition on display at VFD, our Outsiders Gallery displayed portraits by Sex & Rage - an org led by Sex Workers, Sex Educators & activists resisting stigma and shame through sex education.
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Through a process of fragmentation, collage, and fabulation, Ebun devises softer, other-wise ways of imagining and speaking about the body, desire, archives, and the past. In dialogue with artists Em Williams, Ms Siren and Dextra Mandrake, this installation explores the intangibility of trans belonging and forms of trans people caring for themselves and each other.
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