Māori artist Hugo Koha Lindsay explores language erasure through blackboard-inspired works
Māori artist Hugo Koha Lindsay's new exhibition transforms colonial blackboards into abstract paintings exploring language loss and cultural resistance.
Māori artist Hugo Koha Lindsay has created a new body of work called Minor Infractions that uses blackboards as a conceptual lens to explore the erasure of te reo Māori and Māori knowledge systems in Aotearoa. The labour-intensive paintings involve repeated gestures of vowels and are physically sewn together, mimicking the repetitive discipline of classroom writing. Lindsay, who did not grow up speaking te reo Māori, uses the work to contemplate his own relationship with whakapapa and te ao Māori. The exhibition is currently on display at Gow Langsford Gallery in central Auckland.
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How Hugo Koha Lindsay turned colonial blackboards into works of Māori resistance
Treating art as an act of discipline rather than creativity helped artist Hugo Koha Lindsay produce his new body of work, Minor Infractions. All photos by Chevron Hassett. M āori artist Hugo Koha Lindsay didn’t grow up with te reo…