Plot

Papatūānuku / Earth

"Plot invites us to consider how we conceive of and value land. Waikato-based artist Graham (Ngāti Korokī Kahukura) was interested in how the South Island had been divided up and then 'purchased' from Ngāi Tahu by the settler government to be sold by plot, divested of its spiritual and ancestral value. The topographic rendering of Te Waipounamu (the South Island) is hand-carved in marble, and sits on what is essentially a sarcophagus, suggesting that the land endures a death when seen only as a commodity." (Scoop)