PELT series

Lisa Reihana is a Maori multi media artist based in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Reihana reinterprets Maori mythology through the lens of contemporary culture. In providing modern accessibility to Maori history and lore, she bestows respect and prestige upon this fertile indigenous culture and confirms its universal inclusiveness.

The striking figures that occupy Lisa Reihana’s photographs and video installations are equally informed by her inspiration from fantasy, advertising and computer games, rendering them almost instantly familiar to the viewer. An alternate narrative of gender is threaded throughout her work, navigating conceptions of the masculine, the feminine and the androgynous.