Tahi Moore

Auckland-based artist Tahi Moore works across a range of media including video, sculpture, painting and performance. Moore’s installations typically unfold and collapse around a textual axis offered to the viewer through subtitles in his video works. Working in the gaps between images, words and genres, Moore builds pathways through a myriad of references from philosophy, literature, film, and popular culture more generally. These stories typically evince the artist’s long-standing fascination with narrative structure, in particular stories of failure, fakes, and moments where meaning is misunderstood, misconstrued or mistranslated. Moore’s works demonstrate the way in which one word or idea can refer to various real and imagined people, places and things, in an ongoing existential enquiry into the production and destruction of meaning.

- Hopkinson Mossman