Sarah Hudson
Aotearoa New Zealand
Ngāti Awa,
Ngāi Tūhoe,
Ngāti Pūkeko,
Māori
Reconnect
- 2023
- Video, sound
- Purchased 2023
- 2023/127.2
Tags: Māori (culture or style), monochrome, nudes (representations), rock, women (female humans)
This work by Sarah Hudson is a companion to Remember and is informed by the whakataukī ‘e kore a Parawhenuamea e haere ki te kore a Rakahore’. This whakataukī highlights the interconnectedness of water and rock – without rock, water does not flow. Hudson has spent several years researching the practices of her tūpuna Māori in the use of rocks, clay and soils mixed with water as a material for personal adornment, art making, ceremony and medicine. Here she explores the whakapapa of whenua, reconnecting with her body and the land through ritual.
Glossary: whakataukī: proverb tūpuna: ancestors whakapapa: genealogy, lineage whenua: land, ground, earth