June 30, 2022

Burlington Contemporary: Yuki Kihara: Paradise Camp

One of the first references to the presence of a third gender in French Polynesia in the Western archive can be found in the diary of a marine officer. In 1789, during a stay on the island of Tahiti, George […]
June 30, 2022

Elle USA: Yuki Kihara

  ‘One of the most remarkable names to emerge from this year’s Venice Biennale is interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara. The first fa’afafine (the Samoan term for third gender). Pasifika, and Asian artist to represent New Zealand there, Kihara reframes history […]
June 30, 2022

The Artist Profile: Yuki Kihara

Don’t miss Yuki Kihara in conversation with Kirsty Baker on identity politics, decolonisation, and the environmental crisis through her immersive new work ‘Paradise Camp’ at the 2022 Biennale de Venezia: Artist Profile Issue 59 from Artist Profile on Vimeo. Read […]
June 30, 2022

Art Review: The Intersectional Experiences of Fa’afafine – Yuki Kihara on Representing New Zealand at the 59th Venice Biennale

ArtReview sent a questionnaire to artists and curators exhibiting in and curating the various national pavilions of the 2022 Venice Biennale, the responses to which will be published daily in the leadup to and during the Venice Biennale, which runs […]
June 30, 2022

Idealog: The future of art – digitising and use of AI in ‘Paradise Camp’

An exhibition showcasing a cultural story of Samoa’s third gender, Fa’afafine by Yuki Kihara, is coming alive thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed in New Zealand. Interdisciplinary artist of Japanese and Samoan descent Yuki Kihara is representing New Zealand […]
June 30, 2022

The Spinoff: Paradise Camp

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 […]