Harboured
archived
4 Feb
–
28 Feb
2015
Mickey Smith
Harboured is a real time exchange between the Port of Duluth and the Port of Auckland–respectively the artist’s hometown and the city in which the artist is establishing a new life. A personal narrative interweaves with issues of contemporary immigration–finding comfort in familiarity, navigating vast physical and emotional distances, integrating into a new society.
For the artist (the daughter of a merchant marine), visual and emotional connections to New Zealand have been made through the shipping industry, a constant and beloved presence in her childhood. In Harboured photographs, presented as large-scale textiles, come together with live video feed to negotiate these distances between father and daughter, Duluth and Auckland.
Exhibition Essays
Harboured by the Harbour: An inn for tired travellers
By Jodi Meadows
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Mickey Smith, Harboured, 2015. Image courtesy of Enjoy Gallery.
Mickey Smith, Harboured, 2015. Image courtesy of Enjoy Gallery.
Mickey Smith, Harboured, 2015. Image courtesy of Enjoy Gallery.
Mickey Smith, Harboured, 2015. Image courtesy of Andrew Matautia.
Mickey Smith, Harboured, 2015. Image courtesy of Enjoy Gallery.
Mickey Smith, Harboured, 2015. Image courtesy of Enjoy Gallery.
Mickey Smith, Harboured, 2015. Image courtesy of Enjoy Gallery.
Mickey Smith, Harboured, 2015. Image courtesy of Enjoy Gallery.