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Moving heaven and Earth

Before there was light, there was darkness. And before the darkness, there was nothing. This is the Creation Story, the universal myth that is a key component of the Toi T? Toi Ora exhibition of contemporary Māori art at Auckland Art Gallery/Toi o Tāmaki for the next six months.

The visitor can approach The Great Nothingness, the first stage of this existential journey, via a long passageway leading from the foyer.

Five huge carved, painted wooden discs lining a wall in the Gibbs Corridor are sculptor Brett Graham’s depiction of the tides of

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