Dreaming from afar brings together three artists from Aotearoa and overseas whose distinctive approach to painting depicts places both visited and imagined.
From Seville’s customary Easter processions to the mythologised bathhouses of Orientalism and the communal mattress room of the marae, each of the artists probe what it means to encounter a place of tradition or history through their own contemporaneity.
The exhibition showcases major new commissions in which the artists push the boundaries of their practice through bold thematic and material experimentation, including two site-specific artworks by Gian Manik informed by the Italian Renaissance tradition of fresco painting.
Touching on ideas of Orientalism, queerness, religion and whakapapa, Dreaming from afar considers the complexities of history and nostalgia through a painterly environment that blends the physical with the imaginary.
This exhibition is presented in association with Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival 2026
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