Image courtesy of Yuki Kihara and Milford Galleries, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Spirit of the ancestors watching (After Gauguin), 2020
Hahnemühle fine art paper mounted on aluminium
116 × 134.6 cm
Yuki Kihara discusses Fa'afafine and beauty pageants
Paul Gauguin
In Gauguin’s paintings, Kihara noticed uncanny similarities to Fa’afafine. In Paradise Camp, Kihara upcycles Gauguin’s works using Fa‘afafine models to represent her own vision of Paradise.
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