"It's a clear early spring afternoon and Ngununggula gallery, five minutes from Bowral in the southern highlands of New South Wales, shimmers as if dressed in sequins for Mardi Gras. This is Belong, a work by the multimedia Aotearoa New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana, designed to draw the audience into Voyager: her gallery-spanning survey of evocative, immersive work, which opened on Saturday."
"I wanted to create something welcoming and joyful as people enter the building, says Reihana, as the installers put their finishing touches to the exhibition. I called it Belong because the Ngununggula means belonging'. I wanted to reference some of the art history that already exists here. Maori artist Lisa Reihana created a shimmering work for the outside walls of Ngununggula to welcome guests to her exhibition. Photograph: Mim Stirling"
Lisa Reihana installed Belong, a shimmering exterior work on Ngununggula gallery that welcomes visitors into Voyager, her gallery-spanning survey of evocative, immersive works. Reihana is of Ngapuhi, Ngati Hine and Ngai Tu descent and has played a pivotal role in shaping contemporary art in Aotearoa New Zealand and presenting it internationally. She is best known for large-scale cinematic works and tableaux vivant that challenge colonial biases and re-centre First Nations cultural identities. Her 2017 Venice Biennale installation In Pursuit of Venus [infected] is regarded as a seminal Aotearoa work. Recent commissions include GROUNDLOOP (2022) for the Art Gallery of NSW.
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