Sione Monū
Artwork Detail
The catalyst for Sione Monū’s photographic series Kafu Couture, 2014– is kafu or blankets; in this case, the mink blankets that are a staple in Monū’s household. Kafu of all varieties, textures, prints and colours are fashioned on Monū’s body as couture garments and documented in a manner befitting of fashion editorials. Across 11 self-portraits and group portraits shot within domestic spaces, kafu are intricately constructed into belted robes and silhouette forms.
In works such as Mangere Bridge – in which the maroon-coloured carpet leads the eye to Monū, who is posed on the couch in a maroon-coloured kafu that strategically covers parts of the artist’s body – leitī are physically and metaphorically inscribed within the domestic. While playful in manner, the artist’s reinterpretation of domesticity denotes the home and its construction as a space where gender can be simultaneously learned, exposed and disrupted.
- Title
- Red Velvet
- Artist/creator
- Sione Monū
- Production date
- 2016
- Medium
- digital colour print
- Dimensions
- 400 x 300 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2022
- Accession no
- 2022/9/10
- Other ID
- x2021/51/11 Old Accession Number
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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