What happens if it's broken?

Latamai Katoa, What happens if it's broken? 2026. Photo by Samson Dell.

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28 Mar – 9 May

Latamai Katoa

What happens if it’s broken? considers the home as a site of perpetual repair, shaped through time and life’s performances.

In this exhibition, Latamai Katoa presents a new series of photographs. These images, offering a view into their family whare, appear almost alien. Under the warmth of domestic lighting, janky DIY plastering jobs and chipped walls resemble decaying skin, a manifestation of how domestic spaces absorb traces of life.

Katoa recontextualises objects made by whānau or gifted by friends, extending this consideration of memory beyond the photographic image. Her 21st key, a birthday present from close friends and whānau at Wheke Fortress, is not merely symbolic of reaching a new era of adulthood, but also speaks to the bonds formed within Indigenous queer spaces. An ornamental hoe, or paddle, was the first piece made by Katoa’s sister during her carving course, grounding the exhibition in familial lineage.

The mailbox is presented as a readymade, its elevation from everyday utility foregrounding questions of memory, communication, and display. Displaced from its original position at the threshold, it no longer functions as a passive receptacle, but instead stages and performs the act of holding. In doing so, it suggests that memories of home are not simply retained, but actively constructed and revisited over time.

At the centre of the exhibition, a stage-like mock-up of Katoa’s whānau home, constructed from memory out of cardboard, acts as a spatial and conceptual anchor. Its intentionally bastardised floor plan disrupts conventional architectural logic, foregrounding the instability of memory and the constructed nature of domestic space. The house is reimagined not as a fixed site of origin, but as a performative structure, continually reconfigured through acts of recall and reinterpretation. Described by the artist as a “sibling” to their previous exhibition Nostalgia Archive, the work in What happens if it’s broken? continues Katoa’s exploration of the house as both an architectural form and a lived, unstable archive.

Past Event

Squiggla Making Space

For CubaDupa Festival Saturday 28-Sunday 29 March 12pm-4pm we have partnered with the Chartwell Trust's Squiggla programme to support a Squiggla Making Space in Left Bank.

More info

Latamai Katoa, What happens if it's broken? 2026. Photo by Samson Dell.

He ringatoi a Latamai Katoa e noho ana i Tāmaki Makaurau. Arā āna kaupapa mahi toi, ko te toi puni tērā, ko te toi ata teretere hoki tērā, waihoki, ko ngā hanganga me he pae whakaari te āhua. He mea ahu mai āna mahi i ngā wheako takatāpui, Tangata Moana hoki. Ko tāna he whakatōmene i te maharatanga, te whēnakonako me te hoahoa ā-whare, he mātai hoki i ngā
horopaki ā-whare, ngā whare karauna me ngā hītori tuku iho.

Kua whakakitea ā Katoa mahi huri noa i Tāmaki Makaurau, tae rā anō ki Nostalgia Archive i Wheke Fortress (2025–26), ki HAUMI Ē HUI Ē i Te Waka Tūhura me George Fraser Gallery (2024), waihoki ko What’s Tonight to Eternity? i George Fraser Gallery (2024). He National Geographic Society Young Explorer ia, e whakamahi ana i te hopu whakaahua hei akiaki i te
manawa nui, te māhaki me te aroha, inā noa atu ki te hunga āniwaniwa.

Mā roto rawa i ngā huarahi pērā i te whakahouhou me te moemoeā anō, ka huritao ā Katoa mahi toi puni, ata hoki i tā te mahara me ngā hītori whaiaro noho tonu ki ngā wāhi e noho nei tātou, ki reira ngā taputapu ā-whare, ngā pakitara me ngā mata e mau ana i ngā makatea o te wā me te wheako.

Latamai Katoa is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland whose practice spans installation, moving image, and stage-set-like structures. Drawing on queer and Pasifika experiences, their work explores memory, nostalgia, and the architecture of home, examining domestic space, state housing, and inherited histories.

Katoa has exhibited across Tāmaki Makaurau, including Nostalgia Archive at Wheke Fortress (2025–26), HAUMI Ē HUI Ē at Te Waka Tūhura Elam Galleries and George Fraser Gallery (2024), and What’s Tonight to Eternity? at George Fraser Gallery (2024). They are a National Geographic Society Young Explorer, using photography to foster tolerance, acceptance, and empathy, particularly for LGBTQ+ communities.

Through processes of reconstruction and re-dreaming, Katoa’s installations and images consider how memory and personal histories remain embedded in the spaces we inhabit, where domestic objects, walls, and surfaces carry traces of both time and experience.

Lily Worrall, moon iron wings, 2026. Photo by Samson Dell.

now on
28 Mar – 9 May

Lily Worrall

moon iron wings is an exhibition of new work in still and moving image by Tāmaki Makaurau-born, Prishtina-based artist Lily Worrall, developed from her time in residence at the Rita Angus Cottage in the summer of 2025.

A poetic and personal meditation on the shifting nature of the self-image, moon iron wings collages place, sound and subject to consider the traces that histories leave behind.

The title of the exhibition is drawn from Worrall’s newly-commissioned moving image work, shown in Enjoy’s screening room. Across layered sonic and temporal registers, moon iron wings parses a number of narrative reference points: the film set on which her parents first met, where they were tasked with making their own gravestones; the story of a girl named Lilly who stole flowers from the graves at Bolton Street Cemetery; and the artist’s observations of Te Whanganui-a-Tara and her new home in Prishtina, Kosovo. Set adrift from a clear start or end point, each orbits the shifting terrain of memory, both familial and historical. The near and distant past coalesce alongside the present, as slippages in time and place are brought together to an atmospheric and sensorial soundscape of rushing wind, chiming bells, and an uncanny composition for stringed instruments. In turn, Worrall’s own subjectivity is doubled, refracted and retold through the gaze and voices of those closest to her. Her self-portrait is examined only by proxy, made contingent on the perceptions of others and mediated by the camera.

In Gallery B, Worrall presents An image of my mother, 1982, 2026, a photograph of the artist’s mother lying on top of her fictional grave. The portrait defers the act of remembrance to become something more ambiguous; Worrall’s process of image-making is constituted as much by seekings and hauntings as it is by fixity.

Past Event

Squiggla Making Space

For CubaDupa Festival Saturday 28-Sunday 29 March 12pm-4pm we have partnered with the Chartwell Trust's Squiggla programme to support a Squiggla Making Space in Left Bank.

More info

Lily Worrall, moon iron wings, 2026. Photo by Samson Dell.

Lily Worrall, An image of my mother, 1982, 2026. Photo by Samson Dell.

Lily Worrall, An image of my mother, 1982, 2026. Detail. Photo by Samson Dell.

Ko Lily Worrall tētahi ringatoi, kaihanga kiriata hoki. He whakatōmenetanga āna mahi ki te kakano me te matūtanga o te hanga ata, mā ngā huarahi ā-ringa, ā-matihiko hoki. Ko tāna he whakamātau i ngā ata e puta mai i te karu o te kāmera, me ngā makatea e mau nei te kāmera mō rātou i pupuri ai i a ia, i hautū hoki ai i tōna kitenga. Hei āpiti i tana hopu, tāpare hoki i āna anō mahi, ka kohikohi hoki a Worrell i ngā hopunga kitea noa, hopunga pūranga hoki, hei whakatōmene ake i tētahi ara tīmokamoka ki te mahi ata teretere. Kua whakakitea mai āna mahi mā ētahi tini hōputu, tae rā anō ki te toi puni wāhi whāiti, ki ngā kiriata pito kōrero, ki ngā kōrero paki me te oro hoki. Mai i tana putanga rā anō i Te Waka Tūhura i 2016, kua whakaaturia ā Worrall mahi ki te Aotearoa Art Fair, ki RM Gallery, ki te Audio Foundation hoki, waihoki, ko ia te kaiwhiwhi o tā Enjoy Nohoanga Toi Raumati ki te Rita Angus Cottage i 2025.

Lily Worrall is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores the texture and materiality of image-making through both analogue and digital processes. Worrall investigates the images that emerge from the eye of the camera, and the traces they hold of those who wield and direct its gaze. Beyond capturing and framing her own work, Worrall draws on found and archival material to explore a more fragmentary approach to moving image. Her work has been presented in various formats, including site specific installations, essay films, fiction, and sound. Since graduating from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2016, Worrall has exhibited at the Aotearoa Art Fair, RM Gallery, and the Audio Foundation, and was the recipient of Enjoy’s Summer Residency at the Rita Angus Cottage in 2025.