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Vailahi Vailahi, Drone footage of Nanumea and Funafuti (2025)
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Vailahi Vailahi, Drone footage of Nanumea and Funafuti on Masons Screen
Vailahi Vailahi’s work Drone footage of Nanumea and Funafuti (2025) maps parts of Tuvalu under threat from rising seas.
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Whakahokia (2025)
A beachside restoration and performance event in which participants removed invasive maram grass from the dunes of Kuku beach.
Ponc Pontio (2025)
A performance in homage to the slate mine workers of Gwynedd, Wales, who helped to found Bangor University, in which the artist carried local slate slabs up the hill to the university.
saint louis saint louis (2024)
saint louis saint louis traces the islands of Saint Louis in Paris and Saint Louis in Sénégal through the complexities of a certain aspect of French/Senegalese identity.
seuteu (2023)
Filmed across Tournon-sur-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence, and Dakar, seuteu unravels an archaeology of Yana Dombrowsky-M’Baye’s matrilineal ancestry. Carried by the air, we drift in and over homes, bodies of water, landscapes, and atmospheres, contemplating the space between memory and lived experience.
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Without Us, There is No Memory
Without Us, There is No Memory
CIRCUIT'S Kaitiaki Kiriata, artist, and curator Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka navigates oceanic storylines in the work of Vailahi Vailahi.
Yearning for Radiance
Yearning for Radiance
Robyn Maree Pickens unpicks the archival impulse in Radicant, an exhibition by artists Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux at the Hocken Gallery.
An Image for the Signares
An Image for the Signares
Balamohan Shingade follows Yana Dombrowsky-M’Baye between two archipelagos with the same name, tracing her attempts to find the signare, a figure entangled within the complex inheritances of French colonialism in Senegal.
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Pati Tyrell in Mana Moana Pōneke
This Matariki, Pati Tyrell's commission Tulouna le Lagi (2022) is included in Mana Moana Pōneke, a series of Indigenous short films projected on a water screen over Whairepo Lagoon in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington