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Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara

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Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara is an intriguing exploration within the Arts & Culture category. The book delves into themes of identity, colonial history, and indigenous cultures, all while challenging the traditional narratives through a creative and artistic lens. Yuki Kihara uses her unique perspective to offer thought-provoking insights into the intersections of art and sociopolitical issues.
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This book may appeal to you if you are interested in exploring contemporary art that challenges cultural narratives. Through vibrant and thought-provoking photography, it reimagines historical stereotypes and engages with themes of identity, gender, and colonial history in a captivating Pacific setting.

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Interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara's work interrogates and dismantles gender roles, (mis)representation, and colonial legacies in the Pacific. Kihara is the first Pasifika and first Fa'afafine artist to be presented by New Zealand at the prestigious 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, with a groundbreaking exhibition of new work that addresses some of the most pressing issues of our time.

For this companion publication to the exhibition, editor Natalie King has commissioned contributors from around the world to explore the interwoven strands running through Kihara's art: race, gender, place, decolonisation, environment, agency, and community. The book contextualises Kihara's lifetime of works, which camp, expose, queer, and question dominant narratives, turning so-called history on its head.

The book contains contributions from Tahiti to Aotearoa. High-profile contributors include New York-based Cuban artist, scholar, and activist Coco Fusco, Tahitian author Chantal Spitz, Filipino curator and professor Patrick Flores, and Australian arts leader Natalie King OAM (who edited the book).

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760761424

Publisher: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 April 2022

Country: Australia

Imprint: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd

Illustration: 124 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Natalie King

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 195.0mm

Height: 270.0mm

Weight: 1160g

Pages: 160

About the Author

Yuki Kihara is an interdisciplinary artist living and working on Upolu Island, Samoa. Since her solo acquisitive exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2008, Kihara has exhibited extensively. Her work has been presented at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan; BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and included in the Asia Pacific Triennial, Daegu Photo Biennale, Sakahร n quinquennial, Honolulu Biennial, Bangkok Art Biennale and Biennale Arte 2022. Her work is held in major collections, including at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, British Museum, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Kihara is a research fellow at the National Museum of World Cultures in the Netherlands.

Natalie King OAM (editor) is an Australian curator, editor and arts leader. She is an Enterprise Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Melbourne. In 2017, she curated Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Australian Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, accompanied by a publication that she edited with Thames & Hudson. She has curated exhibitions for the Singapore Art Museum; National Museum of Art, Osaka; Tokyo Photographic Art Museum; National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, among others.

King is widely published in arts media, including Flash Art International, Art + Australia, Ocula, and e-flux and Phaidon publications. She is the editor of the Mini Monographs series, published by Thames & Hudson. She is president of AICA Australia (International Association of Art Critics, Paris); a member of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) and the Metro Tunnel Arts Advisory Panel, Melbourne; and a mentor for Mentor Walks. In the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours, King was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for 'service to the contemporary visual arts'.

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