He Pāoro Perea - KAUKAU Gallery - 11-28 September 2021

KAUKAU Gallery presents He Pāoro Perea, a joint exhibition by Heidi Brickell and Maia Kreisler.

This marks Maia’s third exhibition with KAUKAU and Heidi’s debut presentation with the gallery.

He Pāoro Perea emerged from a conversation held months before the Tāmaki Makaurau lockdown—a kōrero that uncovered compelling resonances between the artists’ practices. Recognising this synergy, the pair saw the potential not only for collaboration, but for an ongoing wānanga through shared inquiry.

The kaupapa of He Pāoro Perea centres on each artist’s response to dynamic environments: shifting winds, unseen currents, and layered horizons. The title draws from pāoro, meaning echo—whether heard in sound or seen in the physical reverberations of waves moving around land. Perea speaks to pursuit: a following of movement, of direction, of knowledge—as with the ancestral navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa who read the ocean’s flows to chart new paths across vast distances.

Together, Brickell and Kreisler trace these echoes and trajectories, creating works that resonate with memory, momentum, and the continual act of finding one’s way.