Must see exhibitions in August – Jenna Packer
In August, WARREN FEENEY’s list of 10 exhibitions include an encounter with a remote coral atoll in the Cook Islands, an exhibition playing with the idea of walking through a drawing, and three artists collectively making multimedia works.
1. Jenna Packer, Paper Road
PG Gallery192, 192 Bealey Ave, Christchurch. Until August 8.
Paper Road is an exhibition that maps a grouping of imagined, yet tangible island communities, resident in conceived oceans and landscapes, documented as an historical and contemporary world – and its anxious realities. Indeed, Packer describes these islands as echoing colonial realities anchored in an all too present truth, a “recorded history versus storytelling”. Paper Road positions its presence as an invitation to its “common lands”, equally aiming to raise issues and questions about “displacement and resistance”.