Tala o le Tau

Tāmaki Makaurau’s Gus Fisher Gallery and Gow Langsford are proud to present a new body of work by renowned artist Yuki Kihara.

In her latest series Tala o le tau: Stories from the weather (2025), Kihara has worked collaboratively with the Moata’a Aualuma Community of Upolu Island, Sāmoa, in the creation of vibrantly coloured fala su’i (embroidered mats). Each mat, woven from pandanus fibre and bright woollen thread, renders the infrared satellite imagery of tropical cyclones which have impacted the Sāmoan archipelago over the past two decades.

At Gus Fisher Gallery, the exhibition’s title Tala o le tau is borrowed from the name of Kihara’s series, where five works are displayed alongside Angela Tiatia’s The Dark Current (2023) to address themes of climate crisis, matrilineal histories and indigenous knowledge systems. 

In that stone, in that cyclone, in that leaf at Gow Langsford features an additional range of Kihara’s fala su’i alongside the work of represented artists Shane Coton, Bret Graham, Reuben Paterson, Image courtesy of Yuki Kihara and Gow Langsford. Photography by Sam Harnet.

Gus Fisher Gallery | Tala o le tau | 6 Jun–30 August

Gow Langsford | In that stone, in that cylone, in that leaf | 1–26 July

Supported by the Gus Fisher Gallery and Creative New Zealand Pacific Arts Strategy. Courtesy of Yuki Kihara, Gus Fisher Gallery and Gow Langsford, Aotearoa New Zealand.