My Samoan Girl
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.
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: My Samoan Girl
- Artist: Shigeyuki Kihara (Samoan, born 1975)
- Person in Photograph: Shigeyuki Kihara (Samoan, born 1975)
- Photographer: Sean Coyle
- Date: 2004–2005
- Geography: Samoa
- Medium: Chromogenic print on "Fujicolor Professional Paper"
- Dimensions: H. 31 1/2 × W. 23 5/8 in. (80 × 60 cm)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Evelyn A.J. Hall Charitable Trust and Stephanie H. Bernheim Gift, 2007
- Object Number: 2007.356
- Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
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