This is the house that jack built
Andy Butler, Kerry Deane, Sara Gómez, Ming Ranginui, Ashleigh Taupaki, X&Y
27 July – 5 October 2024
Opening 26 July 6-8pm
Artspace Aotearoa
292 Karangahape Road
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Aotearoa New Zealand
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Image: Drawings by Kerry Deane
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Sara Gómez, My Contribution, 1972. Still. 30’33”, 35mm film transferred to data, black and white, Spanish with English subtitles. Courtesy the Sara Gómez Project.
Featuring artist Kerry Deane:
Kerry Deane was born in Paeroa, but spent formative years living on Lone Kauri Farm within the Waitakere Ranges, overlooking Karekare. This close relationship with the environment fundamentally impacted, and continues to inspire, the work he is making today. Deane worked continuously as a lawyer from 1979–2015 initially as a criminal defence lawyer and later in commercial law until a catastrophic stroke changed his life. He now focuses his time on writing and drawing and works out of Māpura Studios, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
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Images above: Kerry Deane at the opening evening of this is the house that jack built
In This is the house that jack built each artwork casts light on this closed-circuitry and the complex frictions it avoids. The wielding of the individual’s visible economic position as power par excellence risks blunting the value of other social contributions such as reproductive and collective labour. The models of individualised ownership are also further entrenched. The various societal and infrastructural mechanisms that enact this separation between so-called public and so-called private life often curtail nuanced and emergent approaches to exchange and relationship building. Whereas, exchange and relationships happen in many ways: through collaboration, whakapapa, nurturing loved ones and places, and underscoring solidarity. Considering value in this expanded way prompts the reimagining of standards: in this exhibition at the centre of Kerry Deane’s work Drawing (2024), two faces encounter one another, underneath reads the subtitle ‘Dialogue.’