See No Evil, Speak No Evil (from the Black Sunday series)
Maker
Shigeyuki Kihara
Production date
2001
Description
For years, Shigeyuki Kihara has used nineteenth century archives to reference the anthropological and colonial perspectives of indigenous Samoans. Kihara's multimedia practice often employs photographic images as source material. Her research regarding the European gaze, the resulting photography and authored papers reconstitute these images from an indigenous perspective.
In these works from the 'Black Sunday' (2002) series, Kihara disrupts the intent of western photographs of a Samoan man and a taupou (chiefly village virginal woman). Kihara's insertion of the vertical colour fields, flat pink 'sunnies' and the painted-on lips is intended to prevent any further giving away of the Pacific self.
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Object detail
diptych
Part 2: 400 x 600 mm
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