Lindah Lepou's latest exhibition drawing inspiration from human zoos

Lindah Lepou is a multi-disciplinary artist raised in Porirua and Samoa who coined the term Pacific Couture. Her new exhibition Mata'aitu, now at Pataka Art+Museum until 8 November, traces the history of human zoos from the 1890s to the present, exploring how the voyeuristic gaze of the 19th-century zoo has evolved through film and into the digital age. On a research trip to Germany, she found a list of Samoan names taken to Europe for display and recognised one as her ancestor, a ten-year-old boy called Tolio, taken without his parents. She joins Culture 101 to discuss the exhibition and the concept of the digital zoo she now inhabits herself.