Lisa Reihana: Digital MaraeA powerful photographic and new media series by leading Maori artist Lisa Reihana, in Govett-Brewster Gallery, 2007
Reihana’s work communicates complex ideas about indigenous identity and bi-cultural living and in this ongoing series she continues her investigation of the concept of the marae. In Digital marae she recreates a wharenui within a digital realm.
In a modern take on the pouwhenua or wooden carvings found lining a wharenui, Reihana’s large and dramatic photographs represent Maori ancestral figures. These images are imbued with a feeling of magic surrealism, seamlessly blending the traditional with contemporary elements. Govett-Brewster Director Rhana Devenport says, “Lisa Reihana’s Digital marae is without a doubt one of the most poetic and powerful photographic series produced in New Zealand in recent times. “This presentation of the work includes new dimensions within the series and the Govett-Brewster is honoured to be presenting these works for the first time.”
Her work is held in numerous public and private collections and she has a strong international presence, most recently exhibiting in Global feminisms at the Brooklyn Museum, and Native Portraits at Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea in Rome and delivering a lecture at the Tate Modern in London.
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qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/apt/apt_2002
Hi Amy, I appreciate that this is "research" and not "response" and therefore you are just copying information from elsewhere, but you should say something like "This information was obtained from the Govett Brewster Website" or something similar, just so there is no question that you are trying to pass off the information as your own writing. TX
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