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CAN

Grant Priest

29 Apr – 27 May
Grant Priest, CAN, 2023. Installation view. Courtesy of Cheska Brown.

Grant Priest, CAN, 2023. Installation view. Courtesy of Cheska Brown.

2023

CAN is a new film by Tāmaki Makaurau based artist Grant Priest, screening in Enjoy's artist cinema. 

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Ocean of Whispers

Elsie Andrewes, Jasmine Tuiā, Jimmy Ma'ia'i, Kasi Valu, Natasha Ratuva

19 Nov 2022 – 4 Feb 2023
Elsie Andrewes, Drink, 2022, digital painting.

Elsie Andrewes, Drink, 2022, digital painting.

2022

A grandmother’s sweet hymn carries keynotes of prayers in a grandchild’s memory, stacking plastic chairs are dragged back into storage, dented from the joy and grieving of mass family gatherings. Paternal and maternal kinship ties deepen through time-honoured iTaukei ceremonies with masi, a kala-noa calls ‘autalavou laiti (youth) to fall in love with their stories marked on tapa.

Ocean of Whispers brings together measina from Elsie Andrewes (Navala, Nakoroboya, Ba. Fiji, Pākehā), Jimmy Ma’ia’i (Sapapali’i and Fasito’outa, Samoa and Edinburgh, Scotland), Natasha Ratuva (Naioti, Bualomanihoro, Fiji), Jasmine Tuiā (Matautu Lefaga, Falefa, Anoama’a, Malifa, Samoa)  and Kasi Valu (Lapaha and Ma’ufanga, Tonga). 

Curated by Etanah Falagā Talapā.

On behalf of Enjoy, fa’afetai tele, vinaka vakalevu, malo ‘aupito to everyone who generously donated to our BoostedxMoana campaign in 2021. It is with your love, trust and support that Ocean of Whispers has been realised.

Header artwork: Elsie Andrewes, Drink, 2022.

 

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