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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Sherman | 100
• Sale Date:
  11 May 2022 ~ 5pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  56
• Lot Description:
  Shigeyuki Kihara
  (Samoan, born 1975)
  Roman Catholic Cathedral, Apia, 2013
  type C photograph, edition: 2/2
  59.0 x 82.0cm (23 1/4 x 32 5/16in).
  RELATED WORK: Another example from this edition is held in the collection of the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhet?, New Zealand
• Provenance:
  The Gene & Brian Sherman Collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  Go East: The Gene & Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 May - 26 July 2015
• References:
  Go East: The Gene & Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2015, p. 235 (illus.)
• Notes:
  Yuki Kihara has developed a persona called Salome who often appears in her work – named for the biblical figure who, Kihara notes, influenced politics through dance. In these photographs, Salome, dressed in constricting Victorian clothes, gazes out to sea and on the ruined interior of the Roman Catholic Church in Apia following the devastation of Cyclone Evan in 2012. The viewer's gaze is directed by Salome: through her quiet strength and indelible presence, we are invited to consider the effects of colonialism on S?moan culture.Kihara describes herself as Fa'afafine – a person within indigenous S?moan society who 'does in the manner of a woman'; loosely translated as being 'transgender' in the Western context. Kihara's Salome exists in the v? – which can be understood as a realm that transcends space and time, a place in which relationships between people and things are established. As the poet Albert Wendt writes, the v? is 'not a space that separates but relates, that holds separate entities and things together in the Unity-that-is-All, the space that is context, giving meaning to things.'
• Estimate:
  A$1,200 - 1,800
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Art

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