Sanderson are pleased to announce Mickey Smith’s touring exhibition 'Morphologies' will be presented in Aotearoa New Zealand as part of the Auckland Arts Festival 2026 at the Arts House Trust.
The exhibition has been touring the United States for the past year being showcased at the Law Warschaw Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota (26 Aug - 15 Dec 2024), the Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota (18 Jan - 25 May 2025) and Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Nebraska, (2 - 26 Sept 2025).
The show will run from 4 March - 24 May 2026 at the Arts House Trust in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
'Morphologies' is a photographic documentation and visual representation of Mickey Smith’s two-decade long inquiry into the stories held within libraries and the chronicles carried by the books themselves. Through the symbolism embedded in her subject, Smith creates a deeply personal exploration into our relationship with knowledge and information. Her images highlight both the vulnerability and the importance of information, raising questions about its control, transmission, and accessibility. Using the book as a symbol of power and knowledge, the artist’s attention to her subject, and at times its personification, not only reflects the ancient human need for connection and communication but also draws attention to the inherent, objective beauty of the book itself.
"A library may be a sanctuary, but it is not a mausoleum.” - Aisling Quigley
'Mickey Smith is a master chronicler of libraries, having turned her camera to these repositories of knowledge for over two decades. Her prolific series explore the life cycles of library collections and the labour of those who steward them. Morphologies presents insights through work from her long-form documentary Volume, plus highlights from Denudation, As You Will: Carnegie Libraries of the South Pacific and new installation-based artworks. From chained libraries to digitisation, deaccessioning and artificial intelligence, Morphologies asks us to consider our evolving relationship with books and the institutions that shape our collective cultural memory.' - Heather Everhart, curator.
For more details follow the link here
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