Official Opening of Fafangu: To Awaken
Fri 4 July 2025
04:00 pm - 08:00 pm
Join us for the official opening of Fafangu: To Awaken.
Fafangu: To Awaken is a new body of work by queer Tongan- Australian artist Adriana Māhanga Lear.
Using photography, video, sculpture, installation, sound and music, Lear interrogates the colonial archive to examine the legacies of Eurocentrism and heteropatriarchy on Tongan art forms.
About this event
Suitable for: Everyone
Cost: Free
Image: Adriana Māhanga Lear, Fafangu ae Fangufangu—Awakening the Fangufangu, 2024 (detail), (Double pirogue des Îles des Amis, 1817. National Library of Australia). Courtesy of the artist.