Luke Willis Thompson

Through moving image, performance and installation, Luke Willis Thompson interrogates the politics of representation and the legacies of colonial histories. His films employ restrained formal strategies to construct works that operate as counter-archives, foregrounding absence, silence and refusal. Drawing on the visual codes of broadcast media and political communication, his practice challenges dominant regimes of visibility, while staging conditions in which historical violence and its afterlives can be critically reimagined.

With the support of Creative New Zealand and the Office for Contemporary Art Aotearoa