My Samoan Girl

Shigeyuki Kihara Samoan
 Person in Photograph Shigeyuki Kihara Samoan
 Photographer Sean Coyle

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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.

My Samoan Girl, Shigeyuki Kihara (Samoan, born 1975), Chromogenic print on "Fujicolor Professional Paper"

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My Samoan Girl, Shigeyuki Kihara (Samoan, born 1975), Chromogenic print on
My Samoan Girl, Shigeyuki Kihara (Samoan, born 1975), Chromogenic print on

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