Nikau Hindin features in Exposition générale, the inaugural exhibition at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain’s new premises at 2, place du Palais-Royal, Paris.
Grounded in the renewal of Māori aute, Hindin’s practice is a rigorous, living return to ancestral technologies, where material, process, and whakapapa are inseparable. Working with bark cloth and natural pigments, her works carry the intelligence of making, each surface holding the pressures of hand, time, and breath, and each mark operating as both pattern and testimony. Within the context of this opening presentation drawn from the Fondation Cartier Collection, her contribution asserts aute as contemporary form and cultural continuum, expansive enough to hold cosmology, care, and collective memory.
