Léuli Eshrāghi: ‘AOAULI (VILIATA)’
Léuli Eshrāghi, AOAULI (VILIATA), 2020/22. Single-channel video, stereo sound, HD, colour, 4 min 41 sec. All rights reserved by the artist
About the Work
The sound-and-video work AOAULI (VILIATA) gives voice and embodiment to pre-colonial Sāmoan ways of relating the world relayed in Eshrāghi’s extensive research. In their words: ‘AOAULI is a genealogy of our hxstories of visuality and an embodied visual marking of the vā, relational space, that my body moves through as it visits Mparntwe in occupied Arrernte Apmere, and it returns form to collectively shared Sāmoan motifs thousands of years young.’
About the Artist
Léuli Eshrāghi (b.1986; based in Montréal, Québec, Canada) belongs to the Sāmoan clans Seumanutafa and Tautua. Their practice prioritizes global Indigenous, Asian and Black art and design, sensual and spoken languages, and ceremonial-political practices. Eshrāghi has presented major works at Cinéma Moderne, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Tate Modern, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Galerie de l’Université de Montréal, and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, among others. They have notably exhibited as part of biennials The National 4 (2023), MOMENTA Biennale de l’image (2021), 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020) and Sharjah Biennial 14 (2019). Their work is held in the Royal Bank of Canada and Fonds régional d’art contemporain collections, and in private collections in Canada, Australia, and Norfolk Island.
About EMAP x FRIEZE FILM SEOUL
For the third year in a row, Frieze Film returns to Frieze Seoul 2024. This year’s programme is presented in partnership with Ewha Media Art Presentation (EMAP) and on view from 2 – 6 September at Ewha Womans University and online at frieze.com.
Curated by Joowon Park and Valentine Umansky, this year’s programme is titled ‘All that Weaves the Universe: Of Quantum Entanglements’. It brings together time-based media works of 37 international artists, unfolding across eight chapters.
