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at Randolph Street Gallery, Tamaki Makau Rau, Aotearoa, March 2007
Lusia Samuela
Samoan
Lusia's work has often employed a methodology in which
commonly found
forms are dislocated from their usual contexts, rerendered and presented
within a gallery environment. In her work Take One Down And Pass
It
Around, she has mimicked the exact scale and construction of the
classic
Kiwi beer crate form but rendered it in a delicate semi- transparent
acrylic material. Each of the planks of the crate has been faithfully
rendered and the original text has been reproduced including the ABC
stamp
which hints at the recycling of cultural motifs. Factory CBD is based
on another common construction, a forklift pallet which has again been
rendered in semi transparent acrylic and placed on the gallery floor.
The gallery floor is the site of an original warehouse and Lusia's pallet
reminds us of the shifting usage of factory sites along with the
commercial and social conventions of wage labour.
Take
One Down and Pass It Around 2007
Beer Crate 03, Perspex
40.5 x 26 x 25.5cm
Lusia Samuela
photo credit: Lloyd Osborne
Factory
CBD, 2007
Pallet, Perspex
120 x 90 x 10 cm
photo credit: Jenny Fraser