Curatorview [Alfredo Cramerotti]

March 18th to June 17th, 2023

Taloi Havini: Habitat & Where the rivers flow

Taloi Havini, Habitat (2018-19), Artspace, Sydney, HD, colour, black + white, 5.1 surround sound, 1033 mins. Image credit Zan Wimberley

Taloi Havini (Nakas Tribe, Hakö people) is a multidisciplinary artist using a range of media including photography, audio – video, sculpture, immersive installation and print. Knowledge – production, inheritance, mapping, and representation in relation to her homeland in Bougainville are core themes across Havini’s work.

She employs a research practice informed by her matrilineal ties to her land and communities in Bougainville. This manifests in works created using a range of media including photography, audio–video, sculpture, immersive installation and print. She curates and collaborates across multi-art platforms using archives, working with communities and developing commissions locally and internationally. Knowledge—production, transmission, inheritance, mapping and representation are central themes in Havini’s work where she examines these in relation to land, architecture and place.

Havini lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. She is represented by Silverlens, Manila/New York.

Taloi Havini
Habitat, 2017
Three-channel, 16:9, HD, colour, 5.1 surround sound
10.40 minutes
Originally commissioned for The National by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Courtesy the artist and Silverlens

Taloi Havini
Where the rivers flow (Panguna, Jaba, Pangara, Konawiru), 2023
Archival inkjet print on cotton rag, dibond
Courtesy the artist and Silverlens

Artes Mundi 10, Presenting Partner: Bagri Foundation

Rosemarie Castoro: Carving Space

Rosemarie Castoro (1939-2015) lived and worked in New York all her life, becoming a central figure in the city’s Minimalist and Conceptual Art scene while defying that categorization, declaring “I am not a minimalist, I am a maximalist”.

Finding early inspiration in experimental dance and choreography while a student at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and in subsequent collaborations with dancer Yvonne Rainer in the 1960s, Castoro’s work throughout her life exhibited a highly performative character. and understanding of space and movement. “Do all my problems center around space? At one point – my problem was time. Now, space. I want to carve out space. I carve space”, she wrote in her journal between 1972 and 1973.

Throughout her life she showed a tendency to combine media – declaring herself a ‘paintersculptor’. The works in the show show her extensive practice from the 1960s onwards and include painting, work on paper, video, concrete poetry, wall relief work, sculpture, floor pieces and archival material.

The exhibition is curated by Alfredo Cramerotti, Director, Mostyn and Kalliopi Tsipni-Kolaza, Associate Curator of Visual Arts, Mostyn, and kindly supported by the Henry Moore Foundation, the Rosemarie Castoro Estate and the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul, with special thanks to Werner Pichler.