Friday, March 6 • 11AM - 12PM • Free Event

Artist Talk
Mickey Smith: Morphologies

Presented proudly in association with Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival

Join artist Mickey Smith for an insightful talk on Morphologies, her exhibition exploring the evolving life cycles of books and libraries, from medieval chained collections to the digital age, and what these transformations reveal about memory, culture, and our shared relationship with knowledge.

About the Artist

Mickey Smith (US/NZ) is an award winning conceptual artist and photographer. For over two decades, her practice has been engaged with a longstanding inquiry into libraries, books and archives — in particular the social significance of their physical existence or disappearance.

Smith’s photography is a striking and poignant reflection of human history through her documentation of simple, provocative titles found on library shelves and most recently, second hand book stores around the world. Her work continuously explores the state of entropy within libraries, as we witness information systems shift, digitize and collections become deaccessioned.