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Rangi White’s new commission for The Changing Room draws on the aesthetics of a Work and Income office. The development of this project was driven primarily by the artist’s Official Information Act requests, which were then used to source the furniture and fittings as specified by the Ministry of Social Development. Investigating bureaucracy as both a lived structure and a symbolic system, White considers how material and spatial conditions – furniture, layout, and protocol – structure a person’s encounters with the state.

Rangi White (Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist whose practice often examines contrasting and hybridized knowledge systems. His past works have interrogated the overlapping and conflicting fields of English common law and mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge). White studied Māori Studies at the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau and has exhibited across Aotearoa, including Natural Grouping (Treadler, 2025), Power Deconstructure (Ivan Anthony, 2025), Public Works (Envy, 2024), Stowaways (Demo, 2024), Dole House (Treadler, 2024) and Whakapapa Plasticus (Grace, 2024).

Rangi White’s presentation is proudly supported by The Chartwell Trust as part of The Changing Room 2026.