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Looking back at Samoa: history, memory, and the figure of mourning in Yuki Kihara's Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

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dc.contributor.author Treagus, Mandy
dc.contributor.author Seys, Madeleine
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-30T23:54:11Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-30T23:54:11Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/823
dc.description pp 86 - 109 ; ill en_US
dc.description.abstract Samoan Japanese artist Yuki Kihara’s photographic series Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (2013) focuses on sites of current and historical significance in Samoa. In taking on the title of French artist Paul Gauguin’s 1897 work, Kihara signals her desire to engage with the history of representation of the Pacific in Western art through dialogue with Gauguin and the history of colonial photography. Casting herself as a version of Thomas Andrew’s Samoan Half Caste (1886), a figure in Victorian mourning dress, she directs the viewer’s gaze and invites all to share her acts of mourning at these sites. The literal meaning of the title also indicates how the series engages with history via the Samoan concept of vā, collapsing time in space, to produce an understanding of both the country’s present and the potential future such history invites. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Article in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas;Volume 3
dc.subject Yuki Kihara en_US
dc.subject Photography en_US
dc.subject Samoa en_US
dc.subject Pacific en_US
dc.subject en_US
dc.subject Thomas Andrews en_US
dc.subject Gauguin en_US
dc.title Looking back at Samoa: history, memory, and the figure of mourning in Yuki Kihara's Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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