Taloi Havini

Bio

Taloi Havini (b, 1981, Arawa, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea; lives and works in Brisbane, Australia) is an interdisciplinary artist working across media from sculpture, photography, moving image, installation, and sound. A descendant from the Nakas clan of the Hakö (Haku) people of northeastern Buka, her research practice is shaped by her matrilineal ties to her land in Bougainville and studies surrounding Indigenous Knowledge Systems and museum collections.

Havini creates immersive and site-specific experiences, often reflecting on ideas of transmission, mapping and representation. She continues to work collaboratively on cultural heritage projects with communities in Bougainville.

Havini’s artwork is held in public and private collections including TBA21–Academy, Sharjah Art Foundation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), National Gallery of Victoria and KADIST, San Francisco, CA, USA. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions exhibiting with Artspace, Sydney; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Sharjah Biennial 13, UAE; 3rd Aichi Triennial, Nagoya; 8th & 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, QAGOMA, Brisbane; TBA21’s Ocean Space, Venezia; Barbican Centre, London; Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand; the Honolulu Biennial, Hawaii; and Artes Mundi 10, Wales.

Banner image courtesy of Artspace. Portrait of the artist by Zan Wimberley, courtesy of Artspace, Sydney.

Taloi Havini (b, 1981, Arawa, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea; lives and works in Brisbane, Australia) is an interdisciplinary artist working across media from sculpture, photography, moving image, installation, and sound. A descendant from the Nakas clan of the Hakö (Haku) people of northeastern Buka, her research practice is shaped by her matrilineal ties to her land in Bougainville and studies surrounding Indigenous Knowledge Systems and museum collections.

Havini creates immersive and site-specific experiences, often reflecting on ideas of transmission, mapping and representation. She continues to work collaboratively on cultural heritage projects with communities in Bougainville.

Havini’s artwork is held in public and private collections including TBA21–Academy, Sharjah Art Foundation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), National Gallery of Victoria and KADIST, San Francisco, CA, USA. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions exhibiting with Artspace, Sydney; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Sharjah Biennial 13, UAE; 3rd Aichi Triennial, Nagoya; 8th & 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, QAGOMA, Brisbane; TBA21’s Ocean Space, Venezia; Barbican Centre, London; Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand; the Honolulu Biennial, Hawaii; and Artes Mundi 10, Wales.

Banner image courtesy of Artspace. Portrait of the artist by Zan Wimberley, courtesy of Artspace, Sydney.

Reclamation: Reki, Paraha, Nakas

2022
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Photos and Collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
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Reclamation
2020
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Reclamation, was created collaboratively with her Hakö clan members. The sculptural works lean and suspend into themselves as a form of collective map-making. Underlying the ephemeral installation of cane and earth, are questions about the ways in which we relate within temporal spaces; how borders are defined and claimed as well as the value of impermanence and embodied knowledge over fixed historical understandings.

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Answer to the Call
2021
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22 channel sonic installation 

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Exhibition view The Soul Expanding Ocean #1: Taloi Havini, Ocean Space, Venice. Commissioned by TBA21–Academy and co-produced with Schmidt Ocean Institute, co-founded by Wendy Schmidt. Photos: gerdastudio
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Useful Arts
2021
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Image credit: Installation view, Taloi Havini, Useful Arts 2021 (detail), artist’s collection of Kastom objects, installation dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist, This brittle Light: Light Source commissions 2020-21, Buxton Contemporary, the University of Melbourne, 2021, photography Christian Capurro
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an imaginary line
2018
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Kodachrome slides transferred to archival digital print
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Installation photos by: Hazelhurst Gallery
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Kapkaps from the Mysterious Isles of Melanesia (2015) I, II, III, IV
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Hand-carved, shallow relief porcelain disks, with gold lustre and copper glazes mimicking the customary clamshell and tortoiseshell inlay. With these shimmering porcelain, copper and gold lustre kapkaps, Havini materialises the inaccessible sacred treasures of her Hakö and broader North Solomon's peoples held in museums, their cultural memory restored in a vintage cabinet.
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Middle Tailings
2015
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Digital prints on aluminum

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Beroana (shell money)
2015
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Collection: Kadist, USA, Sharjah Art Foundation, Queensland Art Gallery

Images courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
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The Blood Generation
2009
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Digital print
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The Blood Generation series is a collaboration between artist Taloi Havini and photographer Stuart Miller
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Habitat series (2016-2019)

    The Habitat series are multi-channel video installations exploring intersections of history, the environment and nation-building within the matrilineal social structures of her birthplace, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. Havini’s Habitat series is an ongoing investigation exploring the legacy of resource extraction and Australia’s fraught relationship in the Pacific.

    Habitat: Konawiru, 2016 is a single-channel 16:9, HD, colour, sound, 3:43

    Habitat, 2017 is a three-channel, 16:9, HD, colour, 5.1 surround sound, 10:40 mins digital video installation and was originally commissioned for The National by the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), adapted for her Pavillon Neuflize OBC residency solo exhibition, Palais de Tokyo (Paris) in 2017.

    Habitat, 2018 - 2019 HD, colour, black & white, 5.1 surround sound, 10:33 mins
    Presented as part of the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, Women’s Wealth project and exhibition, supported by The Australia Council for the Arts. Archival footage was sourced from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), including footage from personal family archives, Moses Havini and Marilyn Taleo Hatukul Havini.

The Habitat series are multi-channel video installations exploring intersections of history, the environment and nation-building within the matrilineal social structures of her birthplace, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. Havini’s Habitat series is an ongoing investigation exploring the legacy of resource extraction and Australia’s fraught relationship in the Pacific.

Habitat: Konawiru, 2016 is a single-channel 16:9, HD, colour, sound, 3:43

Habitat, 2017 is a three-channel, 16:9, HD, colour, 5.1 surround sound, 10:40 mins digital video installation and was originally commissioned for The National by the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), adapted for her Pavillon Neuflize OBC residency solo exhibition, Palais de Tokyo (Paris) in 2017.

Habitat, 2018 - 2019 HD, colour, black & white, 5.1 surround sound, 10:33 mins
Presented as part of the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, Women’s Wealth project and exhibition, supported by The Australia Council for the Arts. Archival footage was sourced from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), including footage from personal family archives, Moses Havini and Marilyn Taleo Hatukul Havini.

Selected Exhibitions

Selected Press

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