Tears in rain

Tears in rain

Meg Porteous

Hopkinson Mossman
Level 2, 22 Garrett St, Te Aro, Wellington

17 May – 26 June 2019

Meg Porteous, Self-portrait (the dilemma), 2019. Inkjet print, 594 x 841mm, ed 3 + 1AP

Hopkinson Mossman is pleased to present Tears in rain, a solo exhibition of new photographs by Meg Porteous.

Meg Porteous’s dynamic practice considers common tropes in photography’s history, in particular documentary, surveillance and self-portraiture, to reveal the medium’s libidinal undercurrents and abiding power dynamics, and to interrogate questions of agency and authority over one’s own image.

Tears in rain includes portals into the artist’s private world (self-portraits, quotidian domestic moments, and images of herself as a child) alongside covert images of anonymous characters shot from the window of her apartment building, both down onto the street below and into neighbouring buildings (empty and occupied by people at work).

Read more on the Hopkinson Mossman website