Upstairs Exhibition -em-bedded

The Upstairs Art Gallery

Open daily, 10am to 4pm

Entry is free

Closed New Year's Day, Good Friday, ANZAC Day morning and Christmas Day.

Upstairs Gallery is located on Level 1 of Lopdell House

em-bedded

On show 16 May to 1 June

The bed serves as a profound space for deep contemplation, where emotions, dreams, and memories intertwine. Symbolically, the bed represents the vast spectrum of human experience—birth, growth, death; memories, nightmares, dreams; pain, illness, love.

Paola King-Borrero explores the bed as both an intimate object and a creative catalyst, inviting us to see it not just as a physical space but as a symbolic one, rich with personal and artistic meaning. Embedding herself and the spectator in the resting spaces of muses, King-Borrero reveals a dynamic arena where desire, the body and the unconscious serve as impetuses for creative expression.

Email gallery@upstairs.org.nz with any enquiries or phone 09 817 4278

Paola King-Borrero