Fa’amele Etuale, 'Calling Heaven', 2024 (installation view). Exhibition at Māngere Arts Centre. Image courtesy of the artist.
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What’s for Dinner is a new commission by Fa’amele Etuale for the Te Tuhi Project Wall. Presented as an installation, the exhibition reflects the artist’s experience of poverty and the responsibility of caring for one’s family as the eldest child.
Made of easily accessible materials such as cardboard, newspapers, tape, and glue, What’s for Dinner recreates an everyday moment of scarcity. Black silhouettes represent the absence of food, evoking a powerful contrast between what is seen and what is missing.
What’s for Dinner challenges us to reconsider an everyday question asked in homes around the world, revealing how this seemingly simple enquiry can carry vastly different associations: of insecurity and fear, or the burden of providing. Etuale’s work is a call for understanding, compassion, and kindness—a reminder of the reality of those who face uncertainty around something as fundamental as a meal.
What’s for Dinner is presented in association with Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival 2025.
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What’s for Dinner is a new commission by Fa’amele Etuale for the Te Tuhi Project Wall. Presented as an installation, the exhibition reflects the artist’s experience of poverty and the responsibility of caring for one’s family as the eldest child.
Made of easily accessible materials such as cardboard, newspapers, tape, and glue, What’s for Dinner recreates an everyday moment of scarcity. Black silhouettes represent the absence of food, evoking a powerful contrast between what is seen and what is missing.
What’s for Dinner challenges us to reconsider an everyday question asked in homes around the world, revealing how this seemingly simple enquiry can carry vastly different associations: of insecurity and fear, or the burden of providing. Etuale’s work is a call for understanding, compassion, and kindness—a reminder of the reality of those who face uncertainty around something as fundamental as a meal.
What’s for Dinner is presented in association with Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival 2025.
