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Lisa Reihana Quotes

born 1964 New Zealand

Lisa Marie Reihana CNZM (1964-), known as Lisa Reihana, is a New Zealand artist of Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, and Ngāi Tūteauru descent. She is well known for her video work In Pursuit of Venus [Infected] that was featured at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

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Random Lisa Reihana quote

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Video allows me to look beyond that framework and to show these characters as alive, proud, handsome, and strong.

For me and my marae, and my place for my community, it’s really important that it’s inclusive and that all people feel welcome and there’s a place for everybody inside the house.

Māori women are said not to carve, and I’ve always pushed the boundaries, so in terms of using media and photographic tools or film or video it’s my way of being able to carve. So rather than photographs I think of them as ancestral figures.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lisa Reihana (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.