This panoramic postcard 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.

Yuki Kihara, Fonofono o le Nuanua: Patches of the Rainbow (after Gauguin), 2020.
Courtesy of Yuki Kihara and Milford Galleries, Aotearoa New Zealand.