Mirror City II

Mirror City II, Harry Culy's second solo exhibition with Jhana Millers, marks the final iteration of his photographic series based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa.

"After spending much of my late teens and twenties living overseas, I came back to this place which represented home for me. On my return, I encountered an eerie feeling: 'home' felt strangely unfamiliar. This prompted a desire to explore this uncanny sense of simultaneous belonging and non-belonging, through photographing the next generation of young people living here, and the landscape they inhabit, as a way to picture what home might mean to me now." — Harry Culy

Made between 2018–2022, the photographs wander through a nondescript urban landscape, recording scenes that oscillate between the mysterious and mundane. Enigmatic graffiti, tangled vines and wires, shop window displays, a spiderweb built on the wing mirror of a car — these scenes are punctuated with images of the young people who inhabit the city.

The photographs form a dreamlike narrative that rejects any sort of definitive conclusion. Instead, they trace patterns and rhythms that echo the fragility of belonging, and the uncertain future facing us.