An exhibition of 30 commissioned photographs by ten New Zealand artists. The exhibition includes work by Kirsty Cameron, Shane Cotton, Tony de Lautour, Giovanni Intra, Saskia Leek, Michael Morley, Seraphine Pick, Peter Robinson, Jim Speers and Ronnie Van Hout. Glenn Jowitt currently has a show of photographs from Niue. The exhibition started out as a New Zealand Geographic feature, but by chance Jowitt happened to talk to the Niue government, which applied to the United Nations Development Programme to help fund an exhibition of photographs. Forgiveness uses media generated images of politicians and business leaders interspersed with images of Buddhas, Sacre Coeur Christ and Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, arranged on the gallery floor in a shape resembling a simple mandala.
Illumination is by candle and natural light.
For Carapiet, the installation is a way of responding to the vast changes which have been imposed on NZ society through the combination of economics and politics, by an elite which is so confident of their theoretical approach, to the point of restricting the input of a broader vision. Responses to Forgiveness prompted this from Jon - The very act of using photos in a healing circle reflects the original magical aspects of photography, and for me, its a hopeful exhibition.