Ghost Projects: Uku Rangi / Skye Lunson-Storey, Lingtan Jane Guiguit and Sinag Fernandez

What lies beneath, around, and beyond the monumentality of a city?

Bringing together the practices of Uku Rangi, Jane Guiguit and Sinag Fernandez, this exhibition considers the environmental and social consequences of urban development. Working across sculpture, installation, drawing and painting, the artists draw from their relationships to their homes across Aotearoa and the Philippines to consider how cities reshape the places, environments, and communities around them.

Concrete, steel, glass, water, wai, harekeke and other materials of the built and natural landscape become ways of thinking through flooding, migration, memory, land and belonging. Moving between the monumental and the everyday, the exhibition asks what is displaced, covered over, rerouted, destroyed and forgotten in the making of a city. Rather than presenting urban growth as straightforward progress, the artists draw attention to its ongoing and uneven consequences, and to the histories and relationships that remain beneath its surfaces.

Artist bio:

Uku Rangi, also known as Skye Lunson-Storey (Whakatōhea, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa), is an early-career artist, writer and editor whose practice spans moving image, sculpture, sound, and uku. Initially based in Tāmaki they have recently returned to Tauranga Moana where they grew up. They examine climate change, urban infrastructure, Indigenous futurisms, and wai, asking how we might shift from controlling water to learning to live with it.

Lingtan Jane Guiguit is a Cordilleran emerging artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, having moved from the Philippines at a young age. Through methods such as painting, sculpture, and sound she moves through an interdisciplinary practice. She investigates questions revolving around land commodification, diasporic experience, turbulence in connection, and the tensions between the human dream and imagined utopias. Lingtan holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Auckland University of Technology, majoring in painting, printmaking, and drawing.

Sinag Fernandez is an artist and artsworker from the Philippines, currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Through painting, she explores interpersonal intimacy and the mnemonics of diasporic homing, informed by her personal experience as a first generation migrant. She is also interested in how substrates and installation considerations carry aesthetic relations to broader structures beyond the painted image. Sinag holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Auckland University of Technology.