The Immortal Tango of Love & War, The Four Horsemen of the Apacalypse & Diaspora's Children

Telly Tuita

Bergman Gallery Auckland
Suite 3, 582 Karangahape Road

8 February -2 March 2024

Opening Thursday 8 February, 5pm

For the Auckland Pride Festival (Feb 1-29, 2024 ) Bergman Gallery returns 3 suites of Telly Tuita's epic photographs in a single presentation, marking the first time these images have been seen together as a collective body of work.
Love and war are two extremes of the human experience where the ends are sometimes thought to justify the means. As the saying goes, all’s fair in love and war.  And that conflict can take many forms whether it be a trojan horse at the gates or waging war with your reflection in the mirror. For artist Telly Tuita, it is a maelstrom of life lived between two realities. 

Born in Tonga in 1980, he was raised in several different villages until aged 9, when it was decided that the boy who spoke no English would be better off with his father and European, religiously inclined wife, in Sydney.  The cultural adaptation to life in Sydney was astonishing - from island village to urban metropolis. It was a different planet, new language, new family, new culture, new village. 

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