He wāhi pāoro brings together two video works by Ana Iti, I am a salt lake (2024) and A dry and windswept body (2025), filmed at Kāpara-Te-Hau (Lake Grassmere) in Marlborough. Against the striking landscape of the salt lakes, Iti explores how the cycles and processes of salt production might offer ways of understanding our relationship with the natural world.

Combining text, footage of the salt lakes and scenes filmed at the artist’s home in Heretaunga, Hawkes Bay, I am a salt lake draws connections between place, body and the rhythms of everyday life. In A dry and windswept body, drone footage captured during the salt harvest is paired with an experimental soundscape shaped by the textures and rhythms of breath and salt.