Mark Maurangi Carrol - Islands not to scale (Maru a’o) – Act II

Islands not to scale presents recent works by Mark Maurangi Carrol, developed during his 2024 residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and refined during a return to Rarotonga in January 2025.

This evolving exhibition series explores themes of scale, movement, and representation from a diasporic Pacific perspective. The title references a 1980s Cook Islands tourism brochure in which a map carried the footnote "islands not to scale" — a factual disclaimer that Carrol recontextualises as a critical lens for interrogating colonial cartographic frameworks.