Wrangle, Wrap, Wring

Drawing from our diverse cultural backgrounds, we aim to enrich the Southland community in New Zealand through workshops and an interactive exhibition. Our vision for the exhibition is to create a mixed-media installation where we encourage our audience to reflect on their own patterns, beliefs, and responses to contemporary challenges and traumas, both real and imagined. We aim to achieve this by expressing disorientation, adaptation, and shifting perspectives, while speculating on ways to challenge dominant systems and perspectives. Through this process, we reflect on the interplay of cultural codes, authorship, and visual culture across diverse landscapes, actively involving audiences in the disorienting process of navigating fragmented systems. Our installation will have several components, including drawing, painting, audio, video, sculpture, and textiles.