Lorene Taurerewa: Prestidigitation
24 September, 2013 - 17 November, 2013
Master Bedroom
Lorene Taurerewa, Master of Ceremonies (2012), charcoal on paper
The works in Prestidigitation are concerned with the posing, feigning, manners and trickery of people forced to live and operate under the cover of aliases.
These people are the population of our contemporary world. Many conditions - the post-colonial condition, the class war, the broken nuclear family, the age of communication of codes- have laid down the weave of this world, a weave uniquely tangled in the specificity of each person and each relationship of people. Navigating these tangles involves a series of moves, moves to negotiate, duplicate and perpetuate the psychological environment called Prestidigitation.
Lorene Taurerewa, 2013
Lorene Taurerewa has used drawing to create a universe of characters that she composes into her own unique figurative allegories. The narratives of her work are centred on the dualities of God and evolution; the eternal versus the ever-changing; love and free will versus determinism; the conscious versus the subconscious. These dialectical investigations are manifested in beautiful and delicate figures drawn in charcoal, ink and watercolour. The figures are sometimes spontaneous, sometimes deeply still, or bursting with potential energy. Taurerewa's deft hand and years of training have accorded her an immediacy of touch that allows the subjects of her works to oscillate between dualities as she chooses to portray them.