Don’t Miss: “Darwin in Paradise Camp” at the Whitworth in Manchester

There’s a moment in “Yuki Kihara: Darwin in Paradise Camp” where Paul Gauguin asks Kihara what she plans to do with his paintings. Kihara, a Japanese-Sāmoan artist and a member of the Fa’afafine community, tells the French Post-Impressionist, who died in 1903 and is most famous for his paintings produced in French Polynesia, that she’s updating his work to counterbalance their misleading narrative about the Pacific Islands. She tells Gauguin that she wants him to see “your work through my eyes.”

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