An animated rendering of moons rising over a Sāmoan fale
Artist

Pati Tyrell

Pati Tyrell is a Samoan interdisciplinary artist with a strong focus on performance. They use lens-based media to create visual material centered around ideas of urban Pacific queer identity.

He has shown work at Museum of Contemporary Arts Australia, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Centre Pompidou Paris, and was a 2018 Walters Prize nominee. Tyrell is a co-founder of the queer Pasifika arts collective FAFSWAG, who in 2020 received an Arts Foundation Laureate, and in 2022 showed at the documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany.

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