: Akiko Diegel Boris Dornbusch Trenton Garratt
February 3 - 28 2009
Starkwhite is committed to showcasing the work of new artists in
its annual programme, mostly through solo exhibitions staged in the
upstairs galleries. This year the gallery opens with a downstairs
group show by Akiko Diegel, Boris Dornbusch and Trenton Garratt,
accompanied by a piece of writing by Genevieve Allison.
Akiko Diegel
Opportunity shops often bring back lost memories. They are places
that trigger many emotions including nostalgia, longing and
generosity. They are crowded with narratives lined up on shelves,
hanging on racks, piled into boxes. They surround us with lost
personal and cultural stories waiting to be told. Blankets serve
not only as protection from our anxiety but are also sign of
labour, through their painstaking production, and a physical
embodiment of multiple lost histories, through the exchanges and
uses they have been put through. In buying blankets from
opportunity shops, and transforming them into shopping bags, I am
trying to emphasise the sometimes, harsh reality of our rapidly
changing world, filled with throw-away culture and disposable mass
production, and everyday life.
Boris Dornbusch
I keep coming back to events that reveal the role of the individual
in group constellations and our construction as citizens. I'm
interested in certain fictions between perceptions and
apprehensions of how we understand our individual involvements; the
impositions of popular culture, the juggling of references and the
organisation of social interconnectivity. I see ideas and
observations coming together in different social theatres and the
media I use: 'Set-up' for me is a problem and starting point
at the same time.
Trenton Garratt
These sculptures use the form of a pile as their structure. Piles,
further to being an accumulation of objects, are like residues of
events occurring with or without intention: a pile of dirty
laundry, a pile of autumn leaves or fresh cut grass, a pile of
neglected junk. Piles make me think of procrastination or
obsession. They're either results of productivity or idleness,
consideration or lack of. In thinking about their structure and the
way their form comes about through a sort of falling-into-place,
piles seem to illustrate the workings of destiny - the ways things
end up. It is in this sense that I regard these as processual
sculptures.
Located in New Zealand on Auckland's Karangahape Road,
Starkwhite presents a programme of artists' projects, solo shows,
independently curated exhibitions and occasional forays into new
music and other interdisciplinary practices. Starkwhite also
represents artists from New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific
rim.
Please contact the gallery for further information on the
exhibition and images.
Starkwhite
510 Karangahape Road, Auckland, New Zealand
Tel. +64 9 3070703
Monday to Friday: 11.00am to 6.00pm
Saturday: 11.00am to 5.00pm
starkwhite@starkwhite.co.nz
www.starkwhite.co.nz
