Sharon Lam goes in search of Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp, the New Zealand pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale. While there is deep literature behind it – the entire body of work was first inspired by an essay written by […]

The New Zealand pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia recently opened with artist Yuki Kihara’s ensemble exhibition, Paradise Camp, curated by Natalie King, Enterprise Professor at the University of Melbourne. Yuki Kihara is the […]

‘Paradise Camp’ is a fa‘afafine and fa‘atane pavilion, vivacious and unwavering in its generous platforming of our ways of knowing and being …” Have you seen Art Monthly Australasia’s stunning cover story for the Winter issue? Featuring the work of […]

When Australian curator Natalie King first approached Yuki Kihara to propose a project for the New Zealand pavilion at the 2022 Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale), Kihara declined. The biennale is the world’s premier art exhibition. Founded in 1895, it […]

CONTEMPORARY HUM Natalie, you said that you went on-site to Sāmoa during the filming of Paradise Camp. Was that your first time there and first time meeting the local Fa‘afafine community with Yuki Kihara? How was this experience and, in […]

Traversing the topics of small island ecologies, queer rights and decolonisation, Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp at La Biennale di Venezia 2022 marks a number of firsts for Aotearoa New Zealand’s national pavilion as the artist selected is Pasifika, Asian and […]