The hand you were dealt

Edith Amituanai

Anna Miles Gallery
10/30 Upper Queen Street, Auckland

6 May - 3 June 2023

Opening & Book Launch Saturday 13 May 3-5pm*

*Please note the opening & book launch is a week after the exhibtion is open

Edith Amituanai’s The hand you were dealt looks at the artist’s critical approach via some of her most enduring working relationships. The exhibition takes the form of a card game, bringing together eight pairs of photographs made between 2004 and 2023. Each pair features a perennial subject; some were made around the same time, others span a long period. Amituanai has employed a veritable array of formats in the course of ‘wrestling with the single frame’. This exhibition includes such examples as digital prints on organza and Instax Polaroids — a ‘readily shuffled’ form she likes to refer to as her ‘talent book’.

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