Paul Cullen
(fig. 45) bodies
Ink on paper
150 x 117 cm
Signed & dated 2000

Exhibited: Everything (Installation) George Fraser Gallery. Auckland, 2000.

The works in the George Fraser exhibition responded "to the historical site of Albert Park with its network of underground tunnels evacuated in World War II.

The George Fraser Gallery, situated within Albert Park, becomes the site of an observatory and the park is the location of a Garden for the Observatory.

Drawing on the 15th Century Domenican Priest Felix Fabri's concept of the interconnected subterranean waters of paradise, and on Michel Foucault's heterotopia or contradictory sites in which the garden 'is totally of the world', this is a design for a garden which is reduced to a flow of water in channels above and below the ground. The work, which draws on topography and maps of the real and the fictional, will explore the notion of the heretopic site through the garden and the real space of the gallery."

Ref: Exhibition press release.