Whangarei Art Museum

In Broken World, Alex Chalmers (b. 1991, Whangārei) offers a nuanced meditation on the impermanence of power, using found objects to explore cycles of dominance and decline. The phrase “caput mundi” (meaning “head of the world”) serves as a conceptual anchor for the work, drawn directly from the branding displayed on construction hoardings across Rome, the […]