Yuki Kihara: Fa‘afafine Nation
December 1, 2022
Paradise Camp Reading Group – by Yuki Kihara, Natalie King, Iona Gordon and Allan Haeweng
December 8, 2022
“A gender-bending hit show from the Venice Biennale is set to open at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum.
“Yuki Kihara’s show Paradise Camp achieved international acclaim at the 59th Biennale and by the time it finished up in the New Zealand pavilion just over a week ago, it had drawn 485,000 visitors.
“The show looks at the notion of paradise from an indigenous and queer perspective and argues that France’s most famous post-impressionists, Paul Gauguin, based some of his Tahiti paintings on scenes that were actually from Samoa.
“Kihara is not only the first Pacific Islander to represent New Zealand at the prestigious Biennale, she is also the first fa’afafine artist.”
