Vuvale

Vuvale is an exhibition of new works by Blue Mountains artist, Karlina Mitchell. Mitchell is an artist of multicultural heritage, comprising Fijian and German ancestry, whose work unpacks the ways that culture is enacted and re-enacted in the diaspora.

With this exhibition, Mitchell invokes the term, ‘vuvale’, a word in the Fijian language which translates to English as meaning family, tribe, and extended community. It is a word with spiritual connotations, ‘Vu’ meaning ancient spirit and ‘vale’ home, which Mitchell correlates in her work.