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Opening Celebration: 'Scented Translation'

  • 66 Gloucester Street , Christchurch, New Zealand 8013 · Christchurch
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Opening Celebration: 'Scented Translation'
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On behalf of the CoCA Board, we are delighted to invite you to the opening celebration for 'Scented Translations', curated by Holly Neave, CoCA's 2026 Emerging Curator.
Join us for a mihi whakatau to welcome Emerging Curator Holly Neave, to celebrate the artists, and open this exhibition.
Scent is a powerful medium with the ability to move us on a psychological and physical level. However, in day-to-day life, we breathe in smells in our proximity often without being aware of their complex significance to us.
'Scented Translations' challenges the visual bias of gallery spaces through its focus on the material nature of scent. This exhibition touches on the invisible, yet highly influential relationship scent can have with spaces and ourselves through its bound-by-nothing nature.
This group show is curated by emerging curator Holly Neave and features work by Ōtautahi artists Jen Alexandra, Jo Burzynska, and Steven Junil Park.
The 2026 Emerging Curator programme is supported by a generous CoCA Patron.
'Scented Translations'
3 October to 8 November
Photo credit Holly Neave
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