Dr Pounamu Jade Aikman reviews the exhibition at Milford Galleries Dunedin, 7–30 October 2023.
"Te Whare Tangata: the eternally generative space through which everything is born, the sacred womb known as ‘the house of humanity’. This ennobled title we bestow upon wāhine, an eminence harnessed across Kāi Tahu and Sāmoan multimedia artist Lonnie Hutchinson’s vast corpus of work, including her recent exhibition at Milford Galleries Dunedin, From Me To You. With metal as her means, Hutchinson immortalises the innate strength and mana of wāhine, offering a deeply telling critique of our colonial reality. Powerfully subversive in its metallic aesthetic, the work interrupts the ‘colonial now’ through what I describe as ‘Curves of Steal’: effortlessly coupling medium and message to speak into the unsettling politics of gender and land dispossession."
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