My Samoan Girl
Shigeyuki Kihara Samoan
Person in Photograph Shigeyuki Kihara Samoan
Photographer Sean Coyle
Not on view
Shigeyuki Kihara
b. Samoa, 1975
My Samoan Girl, 2004–05
Fa’a fafine: In a Manner of a Woman series
C-print, 2007
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Evelyn A. J. Hall
Charitable Trust and Stephanie H. Bernheim Gifts, 2007
2007.356
Kihara has created an adaptation of a clichéd studio tableau, presenting herself as women were sometimes seen in colonial images. Her reenactment of a photograph by Thomas Andrew confronts erroneous ideas and cultural perceptions that were perpetuated in the original tableaus.
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