The Circus Comes to Town | Wayne Youle & Ans Westra: {Suite}
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The strength of the collaboration lies in its balance, the reason it succeeds where many posthumous projects falter. Westra’s photographs are not relics but living taonga, carrying the attention that first brought these moments into being. Onto them Youle layers pigment and story that settle lightly, like an epiphyte on a tree trunk. One provides grounding, the other texture and new life. Neither dominates. The work carries a double energy, thoughtful yet mischievous, serious yet winking.
Dina Jezdić, March 2026
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