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Léuli Eshrāghi (Sāmoan, Persian, Cantonese) is a visual artist, writer, curator and researcher who works between Australia and Canada. Through performance, moving image, writing and installation, Eshrāghi intervenes in display territories to centre Indigenous kin constellations, sensual and spoken languages, and ceremonial-political practices.

Eshrāghi engages with Indigenous futurities as haunted by ongoing militourist and missionary violences that once erased faʻafafine-faʻatane people from kinship and knowledge structures.

Eshrāghi has made new commissions for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Sharjah Biennial 14, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center among other group and solo presentations in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and United States. Eshrāghi has lectured at gatherings Creative Time, Hawaiʻi Contemporary Art Summit, Experimenter Curators’ Hub, March Meeting, Dhaka Art Summit, Pacific Arts Association, and Asia Pacific Triennial, as well as at universities in Antwerp, San Juan, Melbourne, Yogyakarta, Montreal, Honolulu, Auckland and Victoria.

They have curated projects including Sāmoan Hxstories, Screens and Intimacies at A Space Gallery, Toronto, and imagineNATIVE, Écrans autochtones: temporalité et mouvement with Mylène Guay also within imagineNATIVE, ʻO le ūa na fua mai Manuʻa at UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Ua numi le fau at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, and in a trilogy co-curated with Tarah Hogue, Lana Lopesi, Sarah Biscarra Dilley and Freja Carmichael, Transits and Returns at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Layover at Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland, and The Commute at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Ia contributes to growing international critical practice across the Great Ocean and North America through residencies, exhibitions, publications, teaching and rights advocacy.