Heather Straka, Age of Discovery III, Archival pigment photograph, 2021
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trishclark.co.nzBringing together senior curator, art historian and writer Christina Barton and young curator Nina Dyer with Heather Straka, Marie Shannon and Stella Brennan to discuss the show's themes and key works.
Two X chromosomes reach through millennia, delivering the realities and rigours of roughly half of humankind. A play on the doubled X chromosome and subversive of the glib evaluation of women’s ‘x factor’, Trish Clark Gallery presents the 3rd iteration of The XX Factor — 2016’s The XX Factor broadly focused on the politics of identity and included international luminaries alongside local artists, while 2020’s The XX Factor 2.0 broadly focused on existential themes in pandemic times. The XX Factor 3.0, broadly focused on portraiture, shines a lens on the practices of nine local artists spanning three generations whose works engage with expanded notions of portraiture.
Bringing together senior curator, art historian and writer Christina Barton and young curator Nina Dyer with Heather Straka, Marie Shannon and Stella Brennan to discuss the show's themes and key works.
Two X chromosomes reach through millennia, delivering the realities and rigours of roughly half of humankind. A play on the doubled X chromosome and subversive of the glib evaluation of women’s ‘x factor’, Trish Clark Gallery presents the 3rd iteration of The XX Factor — 2016’s The XX Factor broadly focused on the politics of identity and included international luminaries alongside local artists, while 2020’s The XX Factor 2.0 broadly focused on existential themes in pandemic times. The XX Factor 3.0, broadly focused on portraiture, shines a lens on the practices of nine local artists spanning three generations whose works engage with expanded notions of portraiture.
