Paradise Now? Contemporary Art From the Pacific

Article by Julie Rauer || Essay by Melissa Chiu

Asia Society and Museum
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New York, NY 10021

Paradise Now? Contemporary Art From the Pacific takes as its departure point the popular perception of the Pacific as a paradise, a worn cliché refreshed seasonally by tourist operators, drinking water companies, pearl traders, and other enterprises. While acknowledging the persistence of such perceptions of their region, the fifteen artists included in this exhibition provide an alternative, more complex vision of the Pacific--one based in the experience of day-to-day life in the region.

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