Mark Maurangi Carrol - Islands not to scale (Maru a’o) – Act II
Highlights
- Unique Pacific diaspora perspective on scale and representation
- Inspired by time in Paris and Rarotonga for global-local insight
- Reimagines colonial maps through contemporary art lens
Overview
Islands not to scale presents recent works by Mark Maurangi Carrol, developed during his 2024 residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and refined during a return to Rarotonga in January 2025.
This evolving exhibition series explores themes of scale, movement, and representation from a diasporic Pacific perspective. The title references a 1980s Cook Islands tourism brochure in which a map carried the footnote "islands not to scale" — a factual disclaimer that Carrol recontextualises as a critical lens for interrogating colonial cartographic frameworks.
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