Leala Faleseuga

Vessel: Dissolution | It's in the milk (2023)

5 min 55 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

The distortions of time and memory seen through parenting and motherhood, pain and abandonment, yearning and regeneration.

Credits & notes

Commissioned by CIRCUIT and Wellington City Council.

    Other works by Leala Faleseuga

    A digital collage of images and arrow-like patterns in red, pink, and blue.
    Jamie Berry / 7558 Collective / Leala Faleseuga

    Breaking the glass ceiling (2018)

    Māori and Pasifika women who have come from the legacy of Mana Wāhine, and who have been affected by colonisation, inequalities, yet have endured.

    Breaking the glass ceiling
    A person close to the camera stares down the lens, blue and yellow hues highlight their face.
    Leala Faleseuga

    5 videos a day: Experiment 2 (2015)

    A series of images from the artist's everyday life are overlaid to reveal the hectic and profound universe of family.

    5 videos a day: Experiment 2
    The sea, children, hands, animals and many different colours appear in a collage.
    Leala Faleseuga

    5 videos a day: Experiment 1 (2015)

    A series of images from the artist's everyday life are overlaid to reveal the hectic and profound universe of family.

    5 videos a day: Experiment 1
    A person stands in front of a projected image of a page from a book.
    Leala Faleseuga

    Product of New Zealand (2015)

    A figure stands against a wall while a series of still images are projected over the top of them, signalling a journey through a life.

    Product of New Zealand
    Leala Faleseuga on CIRCUIT

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