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Transformative Powers

pcycling is not just an environmental practice. Artist Yuki Kihara also applies the term to her treatment of post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin’s exoticizing depictions of Pacific islands communities. In “Paradise Camp,” the New Zealand Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, Kihara presents a series of photographic tableaus, based on Gauguin’s compositions, that bring into focus Samoa’s third-gender groups, including Fa‘afafine, as well as the sociopolitical conditions and environmental threats that these communities face. In this

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