Yuki Kihara: Quarantine Islands (2021)
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In a new series of her acclaimed lenticular photographs, inter-disciplinary artist Yuki Kihara (dressed in the guise of Salome) visits the four islands around Aotearoa New Zealand where people and animals with contagious diseases were once quarantined. Salome dressed in her signature Victorian mourning dress, travels across time and develops signature narratives which unite the various histories and hidden costs, the unspoken and forgotten stories of these islands with the circumstances of now and the covid pandemic. With both conceptual and artistic rigour Kihara continues to position and investigate the history of photography and the moving image of the lenticular process with the subject of colonialism in New Zealand and (by direct implication) the wider Pacific.
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