Ana Iti

Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1989
Te Rarawa, Muriwhenua, Ngāpuhi, Māori

Trapped in a kiss

  • 2021
  • Single channel HD video, colour, sound, duration 9 mins 36 sec
  • Purchased 2022
  • 206 x 197mm
  • 2022/025.1-4

Tags: faces (animal or human components), hands (animal or human components), people (agents), printing (process), printing presses, reflections (perceived properties), windows

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Ana Iti is interested in Ralph Hotere’s relationship with text and printing. Drawing together footage of the now disused studio Limeworks (1987-1994) in Ōtautahi and letterpress printing processes, Iti considers the histories of publishing and disseminating written text as a way to think through her own relationship to language.

Exhibition History

Ana Iti Trapped in a kiss (detail) 2021. Single-channel HD video, colour, sound, duration 9 mins 37 secs. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Māori Moving Image ki Te Puna o Waiwhetū
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Ka Mua Ka Muri

Ka Mua Ka Muri

Our histories are always with us, but who is telling the story? The Gallery’s new collection hang, Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection offers up a range of different perspectives on how the past and future might intersect, and invites us to rethink how we commonly see our heritage. Here, the exhibition’s curators have each selected a work from the exhibition for a closer look.

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