Fatu Feu'u: Abundance

For forty years Fatu Feu’u has been the central figure of the contemporary Pacific art movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. Feu’u’s influence has been outstanding at both the national and international level and has been no less remarkable in his nurturance and encouragement of artists evolving symbolic languages in the exploration of new identities in the diaspora. His influence with succeeding generations of artists has been profound.

This presentation of works holds up a mirror up to our environmental reality. Bright colour and dynamic movement capture the attention and the potential of tactility entices one closer. The frenetic energy of Climate Drift reveals deep oceanic vents and fissures, the swirling eddies of pooled greys portents of the final implosion of Climate Drift II. Glowing magma slides and collides with cool springs muddied by the turmoil.Frantic struggles of marine life against a choking death in Our Melting Reef decries a modernity that has led us to the very edge.

– Fuli Pereira 2022