Turning Tables
K Blick and Kate Kuaimoku
ESSAY 'turning tables': A Dialogue on Nature, Myth, and the Climate Emergency
Night Café is proud to present ‘turning tables’, a duo show by K Blick and Kate Kuaimoku, showcasing paintings, sculpture, and performance. The exhibition delves into the intricate interplay between ecology, our connection with nature, and the pressing issue of the climate emergency, all through the lens of mythological narratives.
Kate Kuaimoku adopts a multidisciplinary approach that involves recontextualising discarded materials and creating new narratives through painting, installation, performance, and sculpture. Her work explores the built environment, the body, cumulative histories, memory, and myth. In each work, she creates visually striking installations or sculptures that activate space. K Blick, in dynamic abstract baroque compositions, with quick colourful brushstrokes and a vivid colour palette, skillfully reimagines mythologies from around the world, challenging the prevailing notion of human superiority over animals and nature.
At first glance, the paintings might look like an abstraction of the natural world, but in each piece, like an allegory, there is a hidden story that unfolds when you take a closer look. Through her captivating artworks, she subverts the traditional hierarchy, prompting viewers to question and reconsider our relationship with the natural world.
