Yuki Kihara, Motuihe Island (2021). From Quarantine Islands (2021) series. Lenticular photograph. 1485 x 1050 mm. Courtesy of Yuki Kihara and Milford Galleries Queenstown.

Yuki Kihara, Motuihe Island (2021).
From Quarantine Islands (2021) series.
Lenticular photograph. 1485 x 1050 mm.
Courtesy of Yuki Kihara and Milford Galleries Queenstown.
Acquired by the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Motuihe Island

The name of Motuihe comes from Te Motu-a-Ihenga (Ihenga's Island). Motuihe is a Crown-owned island in the Tīkapa Moana Hauraki Gulf. In 1872 a quarantine station was set up to hold ship passangers with small pox. In 1874 it quarantined arrivals with scarlet fever. At the begining of WW1 in 1914, the quarantine station was repurposed as a prisoner-of-war camp, which, in addition to other captives, housed German colonial administrators of Western Sāmoa captured by New Zealand soliders. It was a quarantine station again in 1918 during the influenza pandemic. Motuihe became a naval training base from WW2 to 1963.Today, Motuihe is a recreational reserve.

Behind the scenes

Lenticular Print Simulation

Yuki Kihara, Motuihe Island (2021) – simulated view of lenticular print animation