‘And still, to ko oku tupuaga whisper beneath o tātou
Mātua – “Fai pea” – keep going’. For all those who have come before, remain and are yet to come.
2019, Video, 2 minutes 42 seconds
Fresh Gallery, Ōtara, Aotearoa
Curated by Shivanjani Lal
‘And still, to ko oku tupuaga whisper beneath o tātou
Mātua – “Fai pea” – keep going’ is a video work by Emele Ugavule exploring the role of dreams as portals to the ancestral realm. Ugavule overlays her poem “You Were In My Dream Last Night” over stock footage, mirroring the ways that diaspora who have never been to their island homes pull together ideas and images of their ancestral homes.
