Care
RM Gallery & Project Space
5 July – 29 July 2023

Legislative inequalities in the Accident Compensation Corporation, under resourcing of District Health Boards
and the punitive nature of Work and Income, led to the production of Care.

Autobiographical in nature, Care features correspondence and documentation asking the Crown for help, due to living with a rare disorder.

Exposing  webs of relationships between colonisation, neoliberalism, the western medical industrial complex and Westminster politics.

Install photos: Ardit Hoxha



Beyond the Index, curated by Allan McDonald
Gallery One, Unitec, 2020

Maurer documents the eponymous location during lockdown, offering eerie vistas of nearly deserted midday streets alongside slow panning shots of the interior of an apartment, the camera neatly circumscribing the confines of a locked-down existence. In addition to its value as a document of an unprecedented moment in Aotearoa’s history, this work also functions as a psychological study of the alienating, dissociative effects of lockdown and a dreamlike meditation on a posthuman environment.

Reviewed by Andrew Clark for PhotoForum, 21 August 2020

Review

photo: artsdiary


Waka Shed, Okains Bay, 2015 & Fonterra, Hawera, 2014




Contemplations of Place: Eight Decades On
George Chance & Anton Maurer
curated by Paul McNamara
Depot Artspace
Auckland, 2016

Endeavour in
Ngā Ao Kei Roto: He Pukawhakaahua o Aotearoa
Worlds Within: Photobooks of Aotearoa New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa
Museum of New Zealand, 2022

Maurer's photographs in Endeavour are carefully-composed: distanced, empirical, questioning; and there's also an unease, an anxiety, evident beneath his calm surfaces as he explores landscape legacies of industrialism, globalisation and the free market.

Reviewed for PhotoForum by David Eggleton, August 2022

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Karangahape
26.03.20 - 23.05.20
LOCKDOWN I

HD Film, 36:45”
Beyond the Index, curated by Allan McDonald
Gallery One, Unitec, 2020

photo: artsdiary



Where the River Bends
curated by Harry Culy
In Situ x Ilam, Christchurch, 2017