Ioane Ioane & Martin Loire

Ioane Ioane & Martin Loire

Ioane Ioane (Auckland based, born 1962) and Martin Loire (Auckland based, born Buenos Aires, 1976) collaborate across sculpture, installation, poetry, and performance. Ioane’s three decades of mahi across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa draw on Samoan heritage and the generative energies of vā, the relational space of becoming. Loire, a bilingual Argentinian installation artist and poet whose books Mother Tongue and Siesta explore childhood’s emotional architectures, brings a lyrical countercurrent shaped by early fantasies and survival instincts.

Together, they weave material, language, and ritual into works that open connective spaces between cultures, memories, and the shifting thresholds of identity.