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Yana Dombrowsky-M'Baye, saint louis saint louis (2024)
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An Image for the Signares
An Image for the Signares
Balamohan Shingade follows Yana Dombrowsky-M’Baye between two archipelagos with the same name, tracing her attempts to find the signare, a figure entangled within the complex inheritances of French colonialism in Senegal.
Recently added works
saint louis saint louis (2024)
saint louis saint louis traces the islands of Saint Louis in Paris and Saint Louis in Sénégal through the complexities of a certain aspect of French/Senegalese identity.
seuteu (2023)
Filmed across Tournon-sur-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence, and Dakar, seuteu unravels an archaeology of Yana Dombrowsky-M’Baye’s matrilineal ancestry. Carried by the air, we drift in and over homes, bodies of water, landscapes, and atmospheres, contemplating the space between memory and lived experience.
Listening to Our Plant Neighbours (2019)
Electrical resistance in plants is used to generate specific soundscapes, which accompany these video portraits of plants around the neighbourhood of Red Hook in Brooklyn, USA.
A Wardian Case (documentation) (2022)
Documentation of the work A Wardian Case, in which plant cell signals from flora living on Te Kawau Tumaro o Toi Kawau Island are made resonant in chorus and cacophony.
Writing & podcast
Yearning for Radiance
Yearning for Radiance
Robyn Maree Pickens unpicks the archival impulse in Radicant, an exhibition by artists Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux at the Hocken Gallery.
Comic Release: Sean Grattan
Comic Release: Sean Grattan
"If I didn't laugh, I'd cry." — a conversation between Joe Jowitt and Sean Grattan, the first episode of the CIRCUIT Cast series Comic Release.
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Hoping to Tie a Sapling
Hoping to Tie a Sapling
Nat Tozer's A Sapling to Tie (2025) draws Rosa Cachemaille into its verdant imagining of the possibilities and pleasures of an Aotearoa childhood, in the final Masons Screen Summer Writing Commission for 2025.
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Pati Tyrell in Mana Moana Pōneke
This Matariki, Pati Tyrell's commission Tulouna le Lagi (2022) is included in Mana Moana Pōneke, a series of Indigenous short films projected on a water screen over Whairepo Lagoon in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington