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PELT, 2010
Pelt by Lisa Reihana establishes spaces that exist somewhere and nowhere, the inhabitants of which seem of this world but also apart from it. The artist’s balancing of the familiar and the strange has the effect of drawing in the viewer: unnervingly beautiful, the longer the works are looked at, the harder it becomes to drag the gaze away. The subjects of Pelt control the discourse and reconfigure pre-conceptions of gender, sexuality, aesthetics, representation.

IHI, 2019
In multimedia artist Lisa Reihana’s Māori culture, the story of creation describes how Tāne used his powerful …