SPACES by Dar'ya Starykovaa: Photographic Exhibition.
Tue, 12 Apr
|The Charlotte Museum
SPACES photos celebrating our places by Dar'ya Starykovaa https://fb.me/e/5MGpcZuxz
Time & Location
12 Apr 2022, 12:53 pm – 1:08 pm
The Charlotte Museum, 8A Bentinck Street, New Lynn, Auckland 0600, New Zealand
About the event
The Charlotte Museum is excited to be hosting an exhibition of photographs by Dar’ya Starykova, an artist starting her third year at Elam Art School. Dar’ya is a Ukrainian born, Aotearoa artist whose most recent work in mixed media focused on queer history and lived experiences both here and in Ukraine.
This exhibition is the first showing of these photographs, which are part of the Queer Spaces of Aotearoa (Auckland 1) project Dar’ya completed in 2021, but was unable to show due to the COVID-19 lockdown. It had began as a personal research project that found its way into her art practise when her analog photography course assigned a ‘Spaces’ brief in the second semester of 2021.
The project has been supported by the Charlotte Museum by providing historical narrative to accompany the photos, many of which depict spaces, places and venues on the HERstory Walk of K’Rd the museum…