Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda
Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda
Marti Friedlander, Jessicoco Hansell, Taloi Havini, Lonnie Hutchinson, Ioane Ioane, Sione Monū, Molly Rangiwai-McHale & Luisa Tora, Suzanne Tamaki, Latai Taumoepeau, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Kalisolaite ’Uhila
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Cnr Kitchener and Wellesley Streets
26 March - 31 July 2022
Marti Friedlander, United Women’s Convention, Hamilton 1979. E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, on loan from the Gerrard and Marti Friedlander Charitable Trust, 2002.
Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda is an exhibition that maps a feminist trajectory in contemporary Pacific art.
Featuring artists from Australia and Aotearoa, their works declare a new set of principles that form a Pacific feminist agenda, one that acknowledges the existing ways in which indigenous and Pacific societies have always empowered women.
Acknowledging matriarchal societies and reciprocal kinship roles across the Pacific, allows for a notion of feminism that is inclusive of Indigenous gender identities such as leitī and also men.
Across installation, performance, photography, and moving image, the artworks in this exhibition collectively position Pacific feminism as a tool of empowerment.
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