To Turn Night Into Day

Martin Awa Clarke Langdon

Courtenay Place Park Light Boxes
Courtenay Place, Wellington

27 May – 27 September 2020

Wellington-based, Auckland-born artist Martin Awa Clarke Langdon (Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Whāwhākia, Ngāti Hikairo, Kāi Tahu) presents a new photographic series in the Courtenay Place Park Light Boxes for the months leading into and through Matariki 2020, Pipiri – Whiringa-ā-nuku.

Langdon plays on the transient and changeable nature of this site, allowing passers-by to observe and interact with his artwork during the day and night. The exhibition consciously embraces the constant state of natural change from Pipiri to Whiringa-ā-nuku.

To Turn Night Into Day observes Matariki as a time of reflection, realignment and reconnection for all. Langdon’s visual imagery explores duality and connections within the culturally entangled Māori and Pākehā worldviews he experienced growing up. Personal moments with whānau, urban observations and abstractions of whakapapa highlight the importance of whānau and shared knowledge through the generations.