Alongside Aotearoa Art Fair and neighbourhood gallery openings, the gallery will remain open until 8pm.
Join artist Selina Ershadi and Kaitohu Director Ruth Buchanan for drinks and an informal introduction to The Blue Dome and its newly commissioned films. Lett Thomas and Coastal Signs are also open nearby.
This event will be moving through in the gallery but seats can be provided. The location is accessible.
Biographies:
Ruth Buchanan is an artist of Taranaki and currently Kaitohu Director at Artspace Aotearoa.
She works across exhibition making, writing, design and teaching. She has realised significant exhibitions and commissioned works with Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Ngamotu New Plymouth; Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart; The New Commissioners, Mochengladback; Te Pataka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington; Badischer Kunsterverin, Karlsruhe; Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Art Gallery; MASP, Sao Paolo; Gwangju Biennale (8); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Kunsthaus Bregenz; If I can’t Dance..., Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; and The Showroom, London.
In 2018 she was awarded the Walters Prize by international judge Adriano Pedrosa.
Selina Ershadi is an Iranian-born, Aotearoa based artist who works across filmmaking and writing, drawing upon personal and familial histories and archives.
Ershadi’s work complicates straight-forward autobiography and troubles the camera’s relationship to lived reality, making visible the risks and failures that haunt any act of documenting. Her film Amator (2019), co-made with her mother Azita Chegini, is the first Farsi language artwork in the Te Papa Tongawera collection. Ershadi's work has been exhibited widely including Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, The Physics Room, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and the 2025 BFI London Film Festival.