PARADISE*
Tivien Andrews-Homerang, Grace Hasu Dlabik, Sione Monū, Alexander Sarsfield, and Tearia Teaiwa Mortimer, Nicholas Mortimer & Katerina Teaiwa
Curated by Dan Toua
26 July - 4 October 2025
Exhibition Opening: 6pm Friday 25 July 2025
Blue waters, tropical plants, sunshine, smiling faces. Rising sea levels, deforestation, climate crisis, colonisation.
The islands of the Pacific Ocean have long been touted as idyllic paradises, and their people as carefree and welcoming. But in reality Oceanic peoples are battling climate change faster than the rest of the world, facing cultural decay as a legacy of missionisation, searching for belonging in the aftermath of displacement and continually practicing the code-switching that ‘third culture kids’ are experts in. In the midst of all this, community is the common thread that binds Pacific Islanders together - to lean upon, to share stories and pass on knowledge, to examine diaspora and place, and to continue the cultural uplift of the Oceanic Renaissance.
