Te fanau'a 'una'una nā te Tumu: The Sentinels
2017
Painting
Materials:
Collection: Courtesy of the Artist.
Working on almost all the walls in the exhibition space, Alexander Lee has provided a visual setting for ‘A Temporary Futures Institute’ that references the Polynesian territory
of Hawaii as the environment where Professor Jim Dator elaborated his ‘four futures’.
Te fanau’a ‘una’una nā te Tumu: The Sentinels, 2017, unites Oceanian motifs: the sea itself; the leaf of the breadfruit tree, transplanted from Tahiti to feed the slaves on Caribbean plantations; the atomic mushroom cloud. The title also alludes to a Tahitian priest’s prediction of the arrival of new people from across the ocean.
