Exhibition: nanuma : Karlina Mitchell

Overview

nanuma, meaning "to think or remember collectively" in Fijian, explores familial connection, landscape and shared memory. Reimagining the colonial photograph, the artist collaborates with family members to create staged portraits using hand-made backdrops produced in their village of Vunivaivai, Nausori, Fiji. Through storytelling and place-based knowledge, the work returns agency to family subjects while foregrounding collective histories, memory and ways of understanding carried through land and kinship.