Embodied Archaeologies
Excavation Songs
Image: Orca skull, Taranaki St, Wellington, 4 October 1995
Laurence Aberhart
Embodied Archaeologies
Excavation Songs
When the National Museum and Art Gallery in Pukeahu were closed down in anticipation of the shift in 1998 to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, a temporary storage space in Buckle Street housed some of the objects waiting for their new home. Photographer, Aberhart was given access to this storage space where he took a series of haunting photographs. ‘Orca skull’ is from Aberhart (2007). Aberhart’s photographs meditate on our culture and the passing of time and observe those things that remain.
