Congratulations to Campbelltown Arts Centre (C-A-C) on their nomination for a 2018 IMAGinE award for 'Lisa Reihana | Cinemania' in the 'Exhibitions Project' category alongside Carriageworks, Sydney, Murray Art Museum Albury, MCA, Sydney and the National Institute of Experimental Art, at the University of New South Wales.
'Lisa Reihana | Cinemania', presented by Campbelltown Arts Centre from 12 January - 29 March 2018, was Lisa Reihana’s first ever Australian survey, showcasing three decades of video and photographic works. Cinemania featured in Pursuit of Venus [infected], 2015—17, following its premiere at the 57th Venice Biennale, 2017. Almost ten years in the making, this work is a cinematic reimagining of the French scenic wallpaper Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique, 1804—1805, or The Voyages of Captain Cook, and includes scenes featuring Campbelltown’s local Dharawal community. Reihana has used twenty-first century audio-visual technology to animate the wallpaper with real and invented narratives.
This exhibition revealed the spectrum of Lisa’s practice – from early experimental works in digital video such as 'Wog Features', 1990 and 'Native Portraits n.19897', 1998, to futuristic films, dystopian photography and immersive environments, such as 'Fantastic Egg', 2002, 'PELT', 2009 and 'Tai Whetuki – House of Death Redux', 2015 – 16.
'Lisa Reihana | Cinemania' appeared as part of the 2018 Sydney Festival program.
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