Ruins and Reproduction is an introductory lecture on the practice of new Te Whare Hēra artist in residence Eduardo Abaroa.

Abaroa creates detailed fictions that stimulate reflection on the complex cultural clashes that are constituted through modern society. Working in installation, sculpture and video, Abaroa, who hails from Mexico, investigates anthropology, ethnography and biology, creating reconstructed narratives that highlight existing ideologies, particularly those defining art institutions, the everyday and the nature-culture divide.