RM, Auckland and Veredas-SP, Sao Paulo
Auckland | September 2013

Anthony Cribb | Bruno Baptistelli | Fábio Tremonte | Fernanda Barreto | Finn Ferrier | Gabrielle Amodeo | Michelle Beattie | Rafael RG | Yolunda Hickman

Facilitated by Fernanda Barreto and Gabrielle Amodeo

Duas Cidades is an exchange between a group of five New Zealand and four South American artists to form a ‘single exhibition’ that occurs in two different galleries in two different cities at the same time: RM in Auckland, New Zealand and VEREDAS-SP in São Paulo, Brazil.

Separated by 12012km, an ocean and a continent, the initial motivation for the exchange project was to address geographical and geopolitical similarities and differences. However, over the course of eighteen months this project has become an on-going series of communications and miscommunications, understandings and misunderstandings, sudden strides forward followed by frequent postponements.

The resulting exhibition is a series of works which in parts address our initial motivations, but the works also reflect lost points of reference, concealed stories and misinterpreted information.  There continues to be a shared uncertainty as each group of artists interprets, installs and contextualises the unfamiliar works in their familiar spaces.