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Burnt Fish & Chip Shop  |  Wellington  |  NZ

‘Heteropia’ Box Gallery Exhibition  |  Wellington  |  NZ

‘Heterotopias ‘ was inspired by theorist Michel Foucault. This series of work documents 1st principle, ‘crisis’ heterotopias. This deals with walls built to ‘support’ and ‘control’ people in a state of crisis or who have deviated from society, such as prisons, mental institutions, hospitals, night shelters, brothels and rest homes.

Foucault uses the term heterotopia to describe spaces that have more layers of meaning or relationships to other places than immediately meet the eye. In general, a heterotopia is a physical representation or approximation of a utopia, or a parallel space that contains undesirable bodies to make a real utopian space possible (like a prison).