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‘He Pāoro Perea’ started with a conversation some months ago prior to the Tāmaki Makaurau lockdown, with both artists recognising alluring relationships between their dynamic practices, and seeing the opportunity to develop this show together as the chance for a deeper wānanga around their shared explorations.
‘He Pāoro Perea’ relates to a kaupapa of both artists responding to a dynamic environment; shifts in winds and bouncing under-currents, past horizons of visibility and finding paths of discovery upon them. Pāoro refers to echoes, both audible, as in with sound, and physical, as with waves forming off of the contours of landmasses. Perea means to pursue a vector or trajectory, as the ancestors who navigated Te Moana-Nui-ā-Kiwa to discover these Islands harnessed the flows within their world.