installation view, Hawaiʻi Triennial 2025, Capitol Modern.

Kuroshio (2025) 21 minutes two-channel video installation 16:9, color, sound

Kuroshio, or “black current” in Japanese, refers to an ocean current that connects the Japanese and Hawaiian Archipelagos. Honoring this vast ocean space as the connector rather than what makes things apart, Shiba Nash joins these places through vignettes of different stories, languages, material practices, and songs— all belonging to Kuroshio. Moments filmed with family and friends in Kīhei, Honolulu, Waiheʻe, Kahoʻolawe, Nakameguro and Tōhoku, are woven together, activating melodic and sometimes dissonant connections between daily rituals, sacred places, elemental forces, and resistance movements. The two-channel video is accompanied by a sitting environment of moena lauhala, a wall mural hand-painted with ʻulu and a series of drawings that share dreams that guide the artist life.

special mahalo:

Keiko Shiba Nash, Setsuko Shiba, Kohei Shiba, Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Lise Michelle Suguitan Childers, Sarah Kamakawiwoʻole, Josh Kulamanu Tengan, Reise Kochi, Puʻuhonua Society, Keanahala, Hoʻomau Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina, Kapuna Farms, Uluhaimalama, Hui Mālama Loko Iʻa, Joan Lander, Maile Meyer, Mikiʻala Puaʻa-Freitas, Puaokamele Dizon, Manulani Meyer, Pūlama Collier, Mimi Kawai, Naomi Koizumi, Aily Nash, Gordon Nash, Makiko Miyamoto, Aron Sanchez, Binna Choi, Wassan Wassan Al Khudhairi, Noelle Kahanu 

Co-commissioned by Bonavista Biennale and Hawaiʻi Triennial 2025 with support from the National Centre for Art Research, Japan, and the Canada Council for the Arts 

https://hawaiicontemporary.org/ht25-artist-shiba-nash

https://bonavistabiennale.com/artists/sancia-miala-shiba-nash/