Joanna Langford: Out of the Dusk		Dimensions: 4 plinths, 3m high
Sculptor: Joanna Langford				Location: Te Papa Forecourt
Materials: Glass, green silage plastic,				Date of installation: February 2012

Out of the Dusk

Out of the Dusk comprises four large glass cases that sit atop the plinths and collectively make a diorama-like landscape. Each case is furnished with found objects where Joanna sets out to interrogate these elements in their own language and create, in the whole, a singular environment. (edited native) Joanna uses her materials rather like handwriting; they have a formal and legible quality in themselves as well as telling a larger story. In Out of the Dusk mint green silage plastic cloaks a skeletal wire frame. Joanna’s work is a landscape spent, one used by intensive farming and relentless cropping. It is a landscape where gravity weighs heavily, with gridded wire laddering bisecting the cubes of space occupied by this island world. In its monumental site surrounded by the high walls of Te Papa, and the grey plinths themselves, Out of the Dusk, presents something delicate and exhausted and fundamentally anti-monumental.