Saltwater Healing:Yuki Kihara's Darwin in Paradise Camp

Jacobs, Karen (2026) Saltwater Healing:Yuki Kihara's Darwin in Paradise Camp. In: Hidden Stories, Entangled Spaces: Contested Island Heritage and Contemporary Art Curation. International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM), Paris, pp. 46-72. ISBN 978-2-487970-28-1

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Abstract

Taking the 2025 iteration of Yuki Kihara’s immersive art installation Paradise Camp at the Sainsbury Centre and its addition of Darwin Drag as a main case study, this chapter reflects on Kihara’s artwork as a revelation of the impact of marginalisation in an ocean environment. Employing the notion of saltwater healing, used in a multifarious sense in reference to the oceans’ healing properties and the need for fluid thinking as well as the need to look after the health of the Earth’s oceans and its inhabitants, as a framework for analysing Kihara’s work, the chapter discusses the potential of the exhibition as a space for healing.

Item Type: Book Section
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Gender and Its Intersections
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Date Deposited: 08 May 2026 08:31
Last Modified: 14 May 2026 09:01
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/102923
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