Jen Valender, Silenced Strings, 2021, single channel, colour video, 3:30min

Silenced strings explores a history of relationships embedded in shared habitats. The work observes the silenced song of the huia, an extinct avian species highly revered in Aotearoa. Partially filmed at an abandoned granite quarry, this film speaks to the sounds and scars of coexistence and troubled ecological histories

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