作品簡介
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《追尋金星（感染）》是Reihana長期的專題，以及她堅持於殖民主義歷史的獨特看法。在這實踐過程中，Reihana回顧了殖民世界，並朝向於目前突現的後殖民秩序。這件作品製作已有10年，其數位動畫相當複雜，概念與規模也很龐大，由超過1,500個數位圖層、每幅圖片3300萬像素所組成，作品沉湎於受西方製圖學與科學探索所引發的思潮，揭開了思想與哲學的啟蒙時代、殖民驅力以及對權力及慾望既隱又明的凝視。「金星」一詞不僅暗喻著18世紀歐洲力圖透過金星凌日來計算地球和太陽之間的距離，而且影射歐洲對南洋的浪漫幻想，從大溪地被命名為「新賽瑟島」（New Cythera）即可知道這是愛情女神阿芙羅狄蒂或維納斯的出生地。通過數位影像與攝影來重現場景，Reihana改變角色、改造並重新構想了歷史及其在21世紀毛利與太平洋的代表性觀點。《追尋金星（感染）》中的人物被強化與放大了人性尺度，引領我們這群觀者沉浸於充滿思辨的戲劇及歷史劇中。
Reihana’s magnificent in Pursuit of Venus [infected], draw from a longstanding thematic interest and arise from her persistence with a distinctive approach towards the history of colonialism. Throughout her practice Reihana has looked back into the colonial world and forward to an emergent postcolonial order. Now 10 years in the making, in Pursuit of Venus [infected] is a remarkably complex digital animation that is vast in conception and ambitious in scale. The work comprises over 1,500 individual digital layers totaling 33 million pixels per frame, conceived as a meditation on ideas generated by cartographic endeavors and scientific exploration, unravels Enlightenment ideals and philosophy, the colonial impulse, and the distant yet pervasive gaze of power and desire. The‘Venus’alludes to both the 18th-century endeavor to calculate the distance between the Earth and the Sun by timing the Transit of Venus and to Europe’s romantic conception of the South Seas, which is seen Tahiti was named ‘New Cythera’, a reference to the birthplace of the goddess of love, Aphrodite or Venus. By re-enacting scenarios through digital video and photography, Reihana recasts, reclaims and reimagines history and its representation from a 21st-century Māori and Pacific perspective. The enhancement and enlarging of characters to a human scale in in Pursuit of Venus [infected] implicates us, the viewers, fully in the speculative theatrical and historical drama that unfolds.
《追尋金星（感染）》是Reihana長期的專題，以及她堅持於殖民主義歷史的獨特看法。在這實踐過程中，Reihana回顧了殖民世界，並朝向於目前突現的後殖民秩序。這件作品製作已有10年，其數位動畫相當複雜，概念與規模也很龐大，由超過1,500個數位圖層、每幅圖片3300萬像素所組成，作品沉湎於受西方製圖學與科學探索所引發的思潮，揭開了思想與哲學的啟蒙時代、殖民驅力以及對權力及慾望既隱又明的凝視。「金星」一詞不僅暗喻著18世紀歐洲力圖透過金星凌日來計算地球和太陽之間的距離，而且影射歐洲對南洋的浪漫幻想，從大溪地被命名為「新賽瑟島」（New Cythera）即可知道這是愛情女神阿芙羅狄蒂或維納斯的出生地。通過數位影像與攝影來重現場景，Reihana改變角色、改造並重新構想了歷史及其在21世紀毛利與太平洋的代表性觀點。《追尋金星（感染）》中的人物被強化與放大了人性尺度，引領我們這群觀者沉浸於充滿思辨的戲劇及歷史劇中。
Reihana’s magnificent in Pursuit of Venus [infected], draw from a longstanding thematic interest and arise from her persistence with a distinctive approach towards the history of colonialism. Throughout her practice Reihana has looked back into the colonial world and forward to an emergent postcolonial order. Now 10 years in the making, in Pursuit of Venus [infected] is a remarkably complex digital animation that is vast in conception and ambitious in scale. The work comprises over 1,500 individual digital layers totaling 33 million pixels per frame, conceived as a meditation on ideas generated by cartographic endeavors and scientific exploration, unravels Enlightenment ideals and philosophy, the colonial impulse, and the distant yet pervasive gaze of power and desire. The‘Venus’alludes to both the 18th-century endeavor to calculate the distance between the Earth and the Sun by timing the Transit of Venus and to Europe’s romantic conception of the South Seas, which is seen Tahiti was named ‘New Cythera’, a reference to the birthplace of the goddess of love, Aphrodite or Venus. By re-enacting scenarios through digital video and photography, Reihana recasts, reclaims and reimagines history and its representation from a 21st-century Māori and Pacific perspective. The enhancement and enlarging of characters to a human scale in in Pursuit of Venus [infected] implicates us, the viewers, fully in the speculative theatrical and historical drama that unfolds.