Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania

The exhibition comprises two new site-specific commissions by Indigenous artists from the Pacific, Latai Taumoepeau and Elisapeta Hinemoa Heta and is curated by Bougainville-born artist Taloi Havini, returning to Ocean Space after her 2021 solo exhibition. Drawing together performance, sculpture, poetry, and movement, Havini’s curatorial vision is guided by an ancestral call and response method.

Sculptural and interactive machines provide audiences with opportunities to engage with Taumoepeau’s new commission. In response to Taumoepeau‘s new solo commission, a live project space imagined in collaboration with Wāhine architect Elisapeta Heta, a Māori, Samoan and Tokelauan leader and advocate for change.