Wellington based artist and writer Faith Wilson presents 'My Journey to Perfection', a performance series alongside her solo exhibition, Confessions of a teenage afakasi.
Thursday 16 March, 6pm
Friday 17 March, 6pm
Free to attend, all welcome
Past Event
As a half Samoan half Palagi artist born in Aotearoa, Wilson’s performance work questions her identity, whose culture she belongs to and where she fits in. To not be white enough and at the same time not be brown enough is what Wilson will address and attempt to encourage both sides of her self to connect. The
performances will therefore join two conversations but not
silence them, encourage them to speak and exist as a
lived expression of cultural exchange.
Faith Wilson is an artist and writer who currently lives in Te Whanaganui-a-Tara but hails from Tokoroa and Kirikiriroa. Her practice centres on the experience of the self, as an afakasi Samoan/Palagi female who grew up in Aotearoa. She hopes that by telling her stories, she can help others who may identify with hers. Peace, love and resistance.
Presented with generous support from Creative New Zealand, Dunedin City Council and Dunedin Fringe Festival
Faith Wilson
Faith Wilson is a Samoan and Pakeha artist and writer from Aotearoa/New Zealand, currently living in Fernie, Canada, on the land of the Ktunaxa people. Through writing poetry, she attempts to understand herself and her world, using personal experiences such as cultural dislocation, self hatred and self love, generational trauma, to anchor the writing in something real, with the hope that there are others who connect to these experiences. She experiments with writing off the page and in different spaces, accompanied my moving or still images, or on gallery walls. She has published in many local and international journals such as Poetry Magazine, Runway, Sport and Ika and completed a residency in Winnipeg, Canada with Chris Kraus in 2017. She has exhibited throughout New Zealand in group and solo shows, most recently at Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, with her exhibition Confessions of a Teenage Afakasi. You can follow her on instagram @up_and_glo.