Tiny Kingdom of Tonga to be represented at Reviving Humanity Art Initiative for World Youth Forum, November 2018, in Egypt ^Featured

The design Reviving Humanity Art Initiative by Shosha Kamal Design House for the World Youth Forum aims at bringing together the whole world with a joint vision and mission to revive our common humanity, now increasingly forgotten due to human-made wars, terrors and misfortunes the world over.

This design is inspired by the human heart as a necessary physical entity that requires balance in terms of the totality of bodily functions, and a pointer for the whole world that reviving humanity is now a necessary condition of our common existence and not a freely-given human luxury.

This biggest art for humanity will unite 195 artists representing 195 countries, congregating on the land of Egypt to sculpt 195 human hearts, culturally informed by their own views of humanity, with a view to reviving this now long-for noble sentiment with a sense of originality, creativity and innovation.

Semisi has won a number of local and international prestigious art awards, such as the Commonwealth International Connection Art Residency in 2009, which he spent in 2010 at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA), Cambridge University, resulting both in an art exhibition and a catalogue.

He holds several undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in architecture.

Semisi has produced iconic works of sculpture, which include Manuesina on Waiheke and Vaka'ahina in Christchurch, in Aotearoa New Zealand, and twin Hinavakamea and Tunavakamea at Vuna Wharf in Tonga.