The first haerenga recalls the voyage of the Tainui iwi from Hawaiki to Aotearoa. “Those are the nuances I’m interested in, because help to differentiate someone’s experience - their worldview, or their perspective on their own whakapapa or history, and the whakapapa and history in relation to a place that they don’t have a connection to.” “I think there’s an expectation that we already know, that we get it, but there’s always nuances in everybody’s story,” Leatinu’u said. The three haerenga that make up this body of work explore two of the threads of Leatinu’u’s own whakapapa, putting them in conversation with the arrival of European settlers. The title translates in English to “from the front of the canoes to the back of the canoes”, suggesting multiple viewpoints which comprise a collective journey.
The exhibition, titled Mei i ngā kei o te waka ki te ihu o ngā waka, is on at Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga – Hastings Art Gallery and centres on Leatinu’u’s family home, which overlooks the portage of early arrivals in Ōtāhuhu. Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist Jeremy Leatinu’u (Ngāti Maniapoto, Sāmoa) says his moving image exhibition works because “sometimes the threads of connection are so obvious that they’re never really discussed”. Jeremy Leatinu’u's Mei i ngā kei o te waka ki te ihu o ngā waka digital video installation at Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga – Hastings Art Gallery.
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