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Marine Hugonnier

Born 1969, Paris, France. Lives and works in Paris and London, England.

Underneath Marine Hugonnier's long standing interest in anthropology and its influence on cinema is a curiosity with the world and the visual tools for understanding it in the modern era. Her film trilogy Ariana, 2003, The Last Tour, 2004 and Travelling Amazonia, 2006, is surprisingly unassuming and discrete, despite her interest in cinema's spectacular gaze. It has been said that Hugonnier uses the tools of anthropology to develop a conversation with another time and place, and question how we develop relationships with this time through imagery. In the trilogy she variously explores the power of the militia's gaze, the tourist's gaze and finally in Travelling Amazonia, "that which inspired the gaze from the outset". While re-engaging with the conventions of 'discovery' Hugonnier reminds us that perspective itself is an invention. Ultimately through her navigation of the history of perspective she seeks an alternative to our contemporary age of grandiose spectacles and the theatrics of mass culture.

Hugonnier's solo exhibitions since 2007 include Konsthall Malmö, Sweden; FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France; Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; and Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium. Recent group exhibitions include Modernologies, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain, 2009; Beehive on a Stick, Artist Space, New York, USA, 2009; Then the Work Takes Place, Kunsthauss, Graz, Austria, 2009; A Question of Evidence, Thyssen Bornemisza Fondation, Vienna, Austria, 2009; Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum: The Art of Appropriation, MoMA, New York, USA, 2008; Panoramicas, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2008; Badlands, MASS MoCA, USA, 2008; Untamed Paradise, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo, Spain, 2008; Pensee Sauvage, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, 2007; and the 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007, Italy.

Venue: Auckland Art Gallery