IOWERĀ: Kahre Hau Marangai

IOWERĀ:KAHRE/HAU MARANGAI 

Last year - through the exhibition of Skawennati's beautiful mahi in our PŪMANAWA exhibition we formed a relationship with DAPHNE - an indigenous wāhine-led gallery in Montreal. And through Daphne's online beading roopu Daphne Beads we met Kaia'tanoron Dumoulin Bush.

Kaia'tanoron and HOEA! curator Melanie Tangaere Baldwin began speaking in February about the possibility of creating a show together that would allow indigenous artists to speak to each other and our communities across the oceans.

We decided that flags were the most common way to speak visually across distances.

Flags have long been used by indigenous peoples as means of communicating identity, resistance, solidarity, spiritual dedication..

There is also the relationship between flag bearing, insignia and the colonial mission.