A Death of Prosperity

A feature project in the visual arts programme in this year’s Festival, discover Darcell Apelu’s monumental sculpture specially produced for Tauranga Art Gallery’s 8-metre-high atrium space. Occupying ‘prime real estate’, Apelu’s work is both a satirical monument to colonisation and a functioning fountain, complete with terraced sections designed to continually channel the water down the sculpture in trickling cascades. Reflecting on the past, at a time when ‘ownership’ for many is unattainable, the artwork invites us to reconsider our perceptions of security, value and guardianship (kaitiakitanga).

This exhibition has been co-developed for the Tauranga Arts Festival by Supercut Projects and Tauranga Art Gallery. It joins a series of visual arts experiences around the city centre that can also be found on the free to download CITY ART WALK app.

Proudly Sponsored by Creative New Zealand and Tauranga City Council