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Five days before the exhibition opens, the 12 works which make up A Diasporic Pulse of Faith & Patience are hung in Bergman Gallery. It is the first time that artist Andy Leleisi’uao has seen them all laid out; the first time in many months that he has seen them at all. It is a return to old friends that are intensely familiar and yet seen through fresh eyes.

“They (the paintings) create their own energy,” he says, each work a part of his vision of the way the world could be, a world devoid of the barriers that divide humanity. Leleisi’uao points out his bulb heads iconography, black …