Fri, 18 Aug
|Hoea! Gallery
Opening of IOWERĀ: Kahre Hau Marangai
A show in which indigenous artists speak to each other and their communities across the oceans.
Time & Location
18 Aug 2023, 6:00 pm – 19 Aug 2023, 6:00 pm
Hoea! Gallery, Level 1/100 Grey Street, Gisborne 4010, New Zealand
About the event
IOWERĀ:KAHRE/HAU MARANGAI
Last year - through the exhibition of Skawennati's beautiful mahi in our PŪMANAWA exhibition we formed a relationship with DAPHNE - an indigenous wāhine-led gallery in Montreal. And through Daphne's online beading roopu Daphne Beads we met Kaia'tanoron Dumoulin Bush.
Kaia'tanoron and HOEA! curator Melanie Tangaere Baldwin began speaking in February about the possibility of creating a show together that would allow indigenous artists to speak to each other and our communities across the oceans.
We decided that flags were the most common way to speak visually across distances. Flags have long been used by indigenous peoples as means of communicating identity, resistance, solidarity, spiritual dedication..
There is also the relationship between flag bearing, insignia and the colonial mission.
We asked First Nations Artists from Turtle Island and Aotearoa to create symbols of identity - self identifiers- however they chose to interpret that.
Artworks that tell us who they are.
We are excited to announce that the following artists have contributed work to the show:
From Turtle Island:
Zoe Cire
Sierra Barber
Jay Havens
Megan Feheley
Kyle Kaientoton Williams
Kaia'tanoron Dumoulin Bush
From Aotearoa:
Kezia Whakamoe
Kahu Kutia
Keri-Mei Zagrobelna
Etanah Lalau-Talapa
Emiko Waitapu and the Wawaahi Tahaa Collective
Georgina May Young
Aroha Novak
Melanie Tangaere Baldwin.
Opening event starts at 6pm.