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Artists' Talk: Sione Tuívailala Monū and Edith Amituanai
Sione Tuívailala Monū and Edith Amituanai research images 2024
Talk
Saturday 8 June, 2pm
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Join Tāmaki Makaurau-based artists Sione Tuívailala Monū (Aotearoa, Australia, Tonga) and Edith Amituanai (Aotearoa, Samoa) to learn more about their exhibition, Toloa Tales.
In 2023, Edith and Sione travelled to Samoa to celebrate a friend’s participation in the Miss Samoa Fa’afafine Pageant and visit Edith’s family. Sione was interested in exploring historical and familial connections between Tonga and Samoa, and both were thinking about what it means to return to an ancestral homeland, for themselves and others.
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Sione Tuívailala Monū and Edith Amituanai: Toloa Tales
New video works trace migratory threads across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa as the artists return to their ancestral homeland.