Yuka Oyama, Helpers – Changing Homes, Coloring Pencils and a Treasure Box. Scale model in cardboard, 23 x 18 x 20 cm, 2017. Photograph by Harry Culy.
Helpers: Changing Homes is an expansive multimedia project developed through sculpture, performance, film, and jewellery works. During a three month residency at Te Whare Hēra artist Yuka Oyama has sought out project participants whose lives have been shaped by living in multiple countries, interviewing them about the objects they own which maintain a sense of ‘home’. Realising that as a person matures the person becomes their home, Oyama then recreated these objects as large-scale sculptures constructed from cardboard supplied by Allied Pickford Movers.
In Helpers: Moving Homes these wearable sculptures come alive, inhabited by the participants and helpers in a procession around the Tea Gardens of the former Dominion Museum Building.
Please join us to accompany and view the procession and rehearsal performance, in a special preview of Yuka’s Oyama’s new work to be shown in the The Language of Things: Meaning and Value in Contemporary Jewellery at the Dowse February - June 2018.
