Artist Talk: Performing Paradise, Finding Sanctuaries Credits: Yuki Kihara, Seattle Museum
“Yuki Kihara is an artist of Japanese and Samoan descent who identifies as a Fa’afafine—a traditional third gender in Samoa. Her exhibition, Paradise Camp, on view at the 2022 Venice Biennale, casts a critical light on the Western longing for paradise across the Samoan archipelago that masks a history of colonial violence perpetuated by the West itself”
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