The transit of ‘Venus’

Indigenous peoples and explorers collide in a challenging, tantalising scrolling artwork.

It’s unusual for an entire book to be devoted to one artwork, as Rhana Devenport, director of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, admits in her preface. But the artwork in question, Lisa Reihana’s in Pursuit of Venus [infected], is big and complex and ambitious enough to justify it. And the book is like the artwork: a meticulous and beautiful collaboration. Reihana’s 26m-long, eight-million-pixels-per-frame video projection is on display at the gallery – a scrolling, panoramic, computer-generated Tahitian landscape overlaid with filmed performances of encounters between indigenous ...

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