Zac Langdon-Pole 
Born 1988, Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa New Zealand
Lives and works Tāmaki Makaurau

Zac Langdon-Pole is interested in re-contextualising how certain histories, materials, people and processes shape our understandings of the world. Working primarily with collage and assemblage, many of Langdon-Pole’s constructions juxtapose materials, textures, objects and histories that seem to have come from very different places.

For the Asia Pacific Triennial, Langdon-Pole presents three bodies of work, including a group of compelling jigsaw paintings inspired by the ways our prior experience colours our interpretation of Rorschach ink-blot tests. Bringing together two very different images, these carefully recombined puzzles create a third, more abstracted image — or ghost stencil — with its own meaning and purpose.

Centred amongst the almost kaleidoscopic colours are five marble sculptures. These are actual-size reproductions of iconic sculptures from the history of European art, but with their human figures excluded, presenting a ‘memory garden’ of human absence.