Opening with the Artists: Saturday, February 3rd from 1-3pm
Alongside the Fralin Museum of Art, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, the University of Virginia, and Second Street Gallery, Les Yeux du Monde is pleased to participate in Charlottesville’s 2024 Indigenous Art Takeover.
In partnership with Badu Art Centre, Erub Arts and Moa Arts, Les Yeux du Monde presents UKAPALIMIN: ETI KO ETI: RESILIENCE: Stories from the Torres Strait. The exhibition brings together the three Indigenous Art Centres from Badu Island, Erub Island and Moa Island in the Torres Strait, Australia for their first joint international exhibition. The exhibition will be on view February 3 to April 22.
The people of the Torres Strait, or Zenadth Kes as it is locally known, are a distinct cultural group within the Indigenous populations of Australia, with unique Melanesian languages, dialects and cultural traditions. Nestled in the sea lanes separating mainland Australia from Papua New Guinea, the Torres Strait has been an important trading route for centuries and a bridge between two cultures.
UKAPALIMIN: ETI KO ETI: RESILIENCE speaks to the personal experiences of Torres Strait Islanders expressed in three different languages: Kala Lagaw Ya from the Western Islands, Meriam Mir from the Eastern Islands, and English, the language of the colonizer.