Setting the scene for strange encounters, artist Graham Fletcher leaves the door ajar, inviting the viewer into the living space of a modern-era home furbished with displaced Pacific art objects. Characterised by flat planes and open interiors, Fletcher’s paintings epitomise the core of contemporary architecture; minimalistic décor. Rooms comprise of abstract furniture like Tulip chairs, accentuated by colourful wall art and Van Gogh-esque flowers with subtle inclusions of objects such as masks or totems that reflect the New Zealand artist’s mixed Samoan and European heritage. Fletcher creates an environment where old and new collide and cross-cultural intermingling between Western and non-Western forms of material culture are appropriated.
Gow Langsford Gallery
Until 22 October, 2016
Auckland, New Zealand
Untitled, 2016, from ‘Dear Stranger’ series, oil on canvas, 152 x 122cm
Courtesy the artist and Gow Langsford Gallery, New Zealand
