In a recent interview for ArtReview, Yuki Kihara invites readers into the expansive and subversive world of her practice, where performance, film and archival research converge to challenge dominant histories and ways of seeing. Speaking with Fi Churchman, Kihara reflects on her latest work Darwin Drag (2025) and the broader Paradise Camp project, using humour, drag and Indigenous knowledge systems to unsettle Western scientific narratives, colonial frameworks and rigid ideas of gender and sexuality. Across the conversation, her work emerges as both playful and incisive, reframing the Pacific not as a site of projection but as a space of agency, complexity and ecological interconnectedness.
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April 9, 2025
