Lisa Reihana
DigiRadiance: GOLD_LEAD_WOOD _COAL
Tai Kwun Contemporary | Central
EndedVideoInstallation
DigiRadiance: GOLD_LEAD_WOOD_COAL presents a newly commissioned, multi-channel video installation produced by the internationally acclaimed New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana.
GOLD_LEAD_WOOD_COAL engages in a fictional work based on the moving story of SS Ventnor. The vessel had been en route with the remains of Chinese gold-diggers from New Zealand’s South Island to Hong Kong and Canton; however, it tragically sank passing New Zealand's North Island, close to a Māori settlement. The Māori inhabitants gathered the remains of the Chinese and buried them according to their local customs. Taking this historic tragedy as a starting point in her speculative tale, the artist explores questions around foreign labour, longing, and displacement.
This is the second multimedia installation of DigiRadiance, and is specially commissioned to transform the historic F Hall Studio on Tai Kwun’s Prison Yard into an immersive art work.
- Artists
- Lisa Reihana
- About Artists
- Lisa Reihana is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans film, sculpture, costume and body adornment, text, and photography. Since the 1990s she has significantly influenced the development of contemporary art and contemporary Māori art in Aotearoa New Zealand. She has earned an outstanding reputation as an artist, producer, and cultural interlocutor with her attention to the complexities of contemporary photographic and cinema languages expressed in myriad ways. Her ability to harness and manipulate seductively high production values is often expressed through portraiture where she explores how identity and history are represented, and the intersection of these ideas with concepts of place and community. Lisa Reihana represented New Zealand at the Venice Biennale in 2017 with the large-scale video installation in Pursuit of Venus [infected] (2015-17). The work premiered at the Auckland Art Gallery in May 2015 and has since become a seminal work in Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history canon. in Pursuit of Venus [infected] has since been shown around the world and garnered widespread critical acclaim.
- Date
- Nov 2, 2024 – Nov 30, 2024
- Venue
- Tai Kwun Contemporary
- Address
- 10 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong
