Vital Machinery explores intersections in the practices of five Aotearoa New Zealand women artists working across photography and moving image. Shifting between different perspectives and bodies of work, the exhibition reaches inside the mechanisms at play in looking, recording, and orienting through the camera in our contemporary moment.

This publication documents and departs from an exhibition which was first presented in 2022 at Dunedin Public Art Gallery and revisited with the same group of five artists in a further iteration a year later at Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery.

Designed by Eva Charlton, it includes a curatorial essay, exhibition documentation, artist’s writing and pageworks.