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in Pursuit of Venus [infected]
2015-2017
A panoramic encounter between Pacific peoples and Europeans rewrites the decorative colonial idyll from within.
Artist field note
Lisa Reihana
Colonial history looks back.
Appears inOceania
![in Pursuit of Venus [infected] by Lisa Reihana — Example from the series](/artworks/lisa-reihana--in-pursuit-of-venus-infected-2015-2017-e194e559ca7276364f.webp)
The five in one idea
Reihana uses digital spectacle to return complexity, voice and futurity to Indigenous histories flattened by colonial representation.