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Taloi Havini was born in 1981 in Arawa, Bougainville and is currently based between Sydney and the Hakö constituency in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Havini’s work is often a personal response to the politics of location, exploring contested sites and histories in the Oceania region, and employing photography, sculpture, immersive video, and mixed-media installations. Taloi holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, and has exhibited internationally in the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Sharjah Biennial 13, UAE; 3rd Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan; Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh; Honolulu Biennial, Hawaii, USA; and Musée du Quai Branly, Paris.
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When we’re looking at our Pacific Island nations, one of the things that holds us together is the body of ocean which we know as the Pacific—also a name that’s come from somebody else. That’s why it becomes crucial to look at the relationships we have as Pacific Island people to this body of water—the largest continent in the world.
