Kim Pieters

what is a life?

curated by Christina Barton

26 May – 21 September 2014

Kim Pieters, Halo (2010), digital video, audio by Edie Stevens, in the exhibition what is a life? kim Pieters at the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington (photo: Shaun Waugh)

Kim Pieters, Halo, 2010, digital video, audio by Edie Stevens. Installation view, what is a life?, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2014. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Installation view of paintings from the mallarmé suite (2013) in the exhibition what is a life? kim Pieters at the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington (photo: Shaun Waugh)

Installation view, what is a life?, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2014. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Installation view of two paintings from the something possible or i will suffocate series (2009) in the exhibition what is a life? kim pieters at the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington (photo: Shaun Waugh)

Installation view, what is a life?, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2014. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Installation view of the exhibition what is a life? kim Pieters at the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington (photo: Shaun Waugh)

Installation view, what is a life?, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2014. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Kim Pieters, …to walk horizontally along the edge of a word, blinded by sun, to forget what was seen, and what there is, and beneath heel, to gather the fiction of a hill (2011), in the exhibition what is a life? kim Pieters at the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington (photo: Shaun Waugh)

Kim Pieters, …to walk horizontally along the edge of a word, blinded by sun, to forget what was seen, and what there is, and beneath heel, to gather the fiction of a hill, 2011. Installation view, what is a life?, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2014. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Installation view of the exhibition what is a life? kim Pieters at the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington (photo: Shaun Waugh)

Installation view, what is a life?, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2014. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Kim Pieters, ‘letting the days go by’, from the ‘arbitrary knowledges’ series 2013, mixed media on board, 600 x 820mm, private collection, Dunedin © Kim Pieters

Kim Pieters, ‘letting the days go by’, from the ‘arbitrary knowledges’ series 2013, mixed media on board, 600 x 820mm, private collection, Dunedin © Kim Pieters

Installation view of the exhibition what is a life? kim Pieters at the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington (photo: Shaun Waugh)

Installation view, what is a life?, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2014. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Kim Pieters, still from Magnet 2009, digital video, 00:56:15mins, audio by SEHT from ‘the green morning’ CD (Digitalis, 2006) © Kim Pieters

Kim Pieters, Magnet 2009, digital video, 00:56:15mins, audio by SEHT from ‘the green morning’ CD (Digitalis, 2006) © Kim Pieters

Eye in performance, Dunedin Public Art Gallery © Peter Stapleton

Eye in performance, Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Photo:Peter Stapleton