Exhibition of photographic design art
The first exhibition in Mahara iti, a gallery in association with Andrew Sexton Architecture, is by local photographic artist Dr Mizuho Nishioka, who lectures in photography at the School of
Design, Victoria University, Wellington.
Nishioka’s work explores the relationship between representation and scientific depiction of the natural world.
It centres on the technological production of the photographic image and how, through disruption of photographic procedures, a creative practitioner might arrive at new visual territories.
Her work has been shown internationally and is in leading public and private collections.
She has been invited to the European Culture Centre Exhibit in their ‘Personal Structures’ project at the Venice Bienniale 2022, the highly prestigious international art event spanning venues across Venice. She will be showing art in a solo room in Palazzo Bembo from April to November,
and hopes she can get there herself “and stand with the creative giants there at that time”.
At Mahara iti, Nishioka is showing a collection of recent images from Ashburton, Oamaru, Paeka¯ka¯riki, Waikato and Pito-one.
Mahara iti is located at 2 Mahara Place, Waikanae, and open Monday to Friday, 10am-4pm.