Elisapeta Hinemoa Heta, The Body of Wainuiātea, 2024, Artspace. Installation view, Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania, Artspace, Sydney, 2025. Photo: Hamish McIntosh

Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania is a ground-breaking Pacific-led exhibition comprising two site-specific commissions by artists Latai Taumoepeau and Elisapeta Hinemoa Heta and is curated by Bougainville-born artist Taloi Havini. Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania invites audiences through story, song, performance, action and activism to connect with communities living on the islands and atolls of the Southern Hemisphere and to listen to their voices and demands for greater climate justice. Heta’s architectural installation The Body of Wainuiātea is designed as a space for exchange and sharing that embodies ritual and ceremony guided by the Māori concept of tikanga. Taumoepeau’s work Deep Communion sung in minor (ArchipelaGO, THIS IS NOT A DRILL) is designed to engage visitors, who, through their movements, become protagonists in a collective ritual and send an invocation to protect the ocean. Throughout the project a series of conversations, performances and actions will take place with the public, Pacific communities and sporting teams.