Friday 19 April, 4:30pm
Aotearoa Art Fair, Envy
Envy, Wellington, in collaboration with Mokopōpaki, Auckland, warmly invite you to Afternoon Tea With Dr P for an in-person presentation of the artist’s reflective but optimistic and good natured, sea-bird centred environmental work, Breakfast With Broodthaers. Tea, Deconstructed Mussel Fritters and Dr P’s signature Colonial Road Dried Fruit Loaf will be served.
Attracted by the unexpected but amusing tensions inherent in consistently inconsistent understandings of unassuming ideas, Dr P cannot resist making reference to the work of Belgian conceptual artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924—1976). Here, she reinvents his world-famous-in-the world assemblage Moules sauce blanche (Mussels White Sauce) (1967) and serves up her own indigenous flavoured critique of contemporary New Zealand culture. In an aluminium billy, purloined from an unattended cooking fire down at the local camp ground, gender-fluid, native, green lipped mussels nonchalantly escape the Eurocentric fine art ‘mould’ where, accompanied by an ironic bottle of imported British Brown Sauce, they become one of the many menu items already available on the sideboard or bird feeding table in the Breakfast Room of the shag colony.
Artwork Credit: Dr P, Breakfast With Broodthaers, 2023. Mixed media installation. Courtesy the artist, Envy and Mokopōpaki. Photo: Arekahānara
