Internationally acclaimed New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana, best known for her dynamic multi-media installations, created for this exhibition a new body of work that engages with and presents a different cultural perspective on indigenous issues. For this exhibition of new and revised works she extended these ideas, presenting an incisive investigation into gender role construction, while exploring issues relating to cultural identity in contemporary New Zealand.

Reihana’s installations explore the ways in which indigenous identity is constructed and represented in a bi-cultural context. In this exhibition Reihana expanded on her ideas in multi-media works that include 1960s dome hairdryers converted into sound booths, painted ostrich eggs suspended in a blackened void, and a new video work featuring footage of Ngawha Springs in Northland, a taonga of Reihana’s iwi, Nga Puhi.

This exhibition was staged concurrently with Destiny Deacon: Walk & Don't Look Blak.