BEEN HERE LONG?

BEEN HERE LONG?

Paul Johns

Visions
Level 9, 10 Lorne Street, Auckland

11 February - 20 March 2021

Curated by Francis McWhannell as part of the 2021 Auckland Pride Festival

Opening: Wednesday 10 February, 6:00–8:00pm

Talk with Johns: Saturday 13 February, 11:30am

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Ōtautahi-based Paul Johns is one of Aotearoa’s foremost artists. He has long explored gender and sexuality in his work—sometimes directly, sometimes more discreetly. BEEN HERE LONG?, his first solo exhibition in Tāmaki Makaurau for many years, brings together a selection of light-based works, paintings, and photographs produced between the late 1970s and the present day. Diverse in form and temperament, they nevertheless show a recurrent interest in questions of intimacy and belonging.