michael parekowhai

THE BOSOM OF ABRAHAM (FROM THE EXHIBITION, LET THERE BE LIGHT) 2006

screen printed vinyl on fluorescent light housing, edition of 7, 1220 x 220mm. $6,500

In this series Parekowhai's screen printed light boxes "fuses the brash look of Vegas chapels with the intricately patterned rafters of the wharenui". The title refers not only to the Old Testament patriarch, but also the artist's ancestor Aperahama Tukoko. "Parekowhai creates a mobile wharenui, a meeting house within the house of the art gallery. This house full of light materializes with the flick of a switch and there is room for all comers inside it."
Justin Paton: The Big Ask 20 questions about Michael Parekowhai 2007