This A5 sturdy shelf print has been exclusively produced for the Whitworth to accompany Yuki Kihara: Darwin in Paradise Camp, a visually stunning exhibition centring Indigenous, queer worlds by Japanese-Sāmoan artist Yuki Kihara. Kihara delves into art histories and archives to unpick the effects of colonialism on the peoples and ecologies of the Pacific.

Her visually compelling projects centre and empower the Fa’afafine and Fa’atama in Sāmoa, traditional yet marginalised third gender communities to which the artist belongs. In this exhibition, Kihara focuses on two celebrated Western figures – French modernist artist Paul Gauguin and evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) – who each shaped Western understandings of the Pacific.

• Printed onto archival, sustainably sourced mount board
• 1.4mm thick board makes this print strong enough to lean against a wall without bending
• The quote is featured in the Samoan Queer Lives publication, and is on display in the exhibition.

Quote by Jean Melasani. From Samoa Queer Lives edited by Dan Taulapapa McMullin and Yuki Kihara, 2018