Parallel Seductions and Wet Black, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, 2006
Every work in Lonnie Hutchinson’s Parallel Seductions is black. In old glass cabinets, she presents patterned, shield-like acrylic cutouts. They are numbered, suggesting museum registration numbers. Images of naked women, Ladies (2006)—taken from her small, expressive ink-drawing series Midnight en Mass (2003–4)—are blown up and rendered directly on the walls. They comment on the cultural and sexual politics that weigh down and disempower indigenous women. A video, Wet Black (2006), records Hutchinson making ink drawings.
