Lisa the joyful wallpaper8/25/2023 Where previously the Maori were left on the periphery of the image, here the artist allows them to move freely through the work, thus neutralising any hierarchical visual rhetoric. In Pursuit of Venus, highlights the unstoppable impregnation of one people on another as one seeks to dominate the other, such as the terrible diseases brought by settlers that devastated the indigenous nations of the Pacific Islands. A Tahitian chief, a hula dancer, the death of the explorer Cook, a family scene, the rhythmic sound of a Tahitian Otea dance, go on and on in Lisa Reihana's hypnotic, immersive panoramic video. Inspired by the bucolic scenes of Dufour's 1804 wallpaper The Savages of the Pacific Sea, Lisa Reihana's work relentlessly reorients our view of colonial narratives.
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