Kate van der Drift: Sweet and Sour
April 20 - May 16
Kate van der Drift, Waxing Gibbous to Waxing Crescent, October 2020 I, 37°20’33.4”S 175°30’30.5″E, 2020. Chromogenic Photograph from 4×5” Negative, edition of 5 + 1AP, 122 x 98cm. Courtesy: the artist and Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland.
Kate van der Drift‘s new exhibition
Sweet and Sour is a continuation of the artist’s exploration into the fragile ecology and transformation of the Hauraki Plains.
Due to colonisation and industrialisation, the Hauraki Plains have been entirely transformed from forested low-lying wetland to a drained and intensively cultivated landscape with an uncertain future.
The artist’s investigation into the topography of the Hauraki Plains had originally manifested itself into the imagery of the physical farmland and the Piako River in van der Drift’s prior series of photographs. Currently,