Someplace Else: A Travel Archive | Corban Estate Arts Centre

Louise Stevenson, Someplace Else: A Travel Archive

Someplace Else: A Travel Archive. Installation.

Louise Stevenson. Wall One: Revisit 2005 (detail).

Louise Stevenson. Wall One: Revisit 2005.

Louise Stevenson. Wall One: Revisit 2005 (detail).

Someplace Else: A Travel Archive. Installation .

Louise Stevenson. Wall One: Revisit 2005 (detail).

Someplace Else: A Travel Archive. Installation.

Louise Stevenson. Wall Two: Return Fare 1999-2000

Someplace Else: A Travel Archive. Installation.

Louise Stevenson. Wall One: Cold Return 2015.

Someplace Else: A Travel Archive. Installation .

Louise Stevenson. Wall Two: Back Again 2019.

Someplace Else: A Travel Archive. Installation.

Louise Stevenson. Wall Three: Forgotten Visit 1995

Someplace Else: A Travel Archive. Installation.

Louise Stevenson. Wall Three: Forgotten Visit 1995

Through accumulated travel ephemera and intimate drawings, this long-running project grapples with poignant shifts in time, culture and geo-political landscapes; between a Moana island and an Eastern-European nation. Disruption to international travel brings these works into the uncertain situation many are experiencing now, nostalgia for travel and precarious anticipation of when we can return to see loved ones, to travel again to our ‘Someplace Else’.

View exhibition booklet and artist bio here.
View exhibition catalogue here.

Someplace Else: A Travel Archive is part of Auckland Arts Festival 2022.

Photographs by Ralph Brown.

Opening: Friday 4 March, 6-8pm

Someplace Else: A Travel Archive speaks to anyone who has ever travelled and negotiated an inescapable pull between two places. Since 1991, Stevenson has been travelling back and forth between Aotearoa New Zealand and Budapest, Hungary.

Main Image: Louise Stevenson. Műcsarnok, Contemporary Art Museum Budapest (2000). Courtesy of the artist.