Kieran Keat. Untitled (The pleasure of finding things out). Photograph. 1219mm x 1219mm.

Within this image issues of the mother-son connection are played out in an attempt to decipher the role of masculinity within family and to gain answers on why such connections/disconnections exist in New Zealand society.


This image is taken from an ongoing series that attempts to capture the stories of those that exist in a space between ordinary and extraordinary. The moment depicted is located within the genre of performance, yet this private moment becomes a vehicle to address themes of normality, family and desires of belonging and understanding. The role of the artist to depict real information and recreated fabrication gets blurred. However, you still look into the eyes of someone who witnessed history in some form, even if their role in it was minute, meaning that within this scene more than one truth is told.