Ngahina Hohaia

Legacies of resistance and collective memory shape Ngahina Hohaia’s practice. A Māori artist from a lineage of activists, she draws on inherited knowledge systems and tools for survival to create large-scale fibre and multi-sensory installations. Her works testify as material witnesses to the persistence of colonial violence and are conceived as means to restore territories, both physical and as spaces of knowledge. They function simultaneously as memorial forms and acts of renewal.

With the support of Creative New Zealand and the Office for Contemporary Art Aotearoa