Join artist Françoise Schneiders for a talk focused on her work, F*ck you, I’m not your Dusky Maiden on display as part of the SaVĀge K’lub.

A direct response to Gauguin’s depictions of Pasifika people, in this series of photographs, Schneiders challenges the tropes of Tahitian women as ‘dusky maidans’ who are both ‘sexy and submissive’ and ‘exotic and naïve.’ F*ck you, I’m not your Dusky Maiden highlights the real harms this has caused Tahitian women for generations.

Françoise Schneiders is a Tahitian lens-based artist whose practice is deeply intertwined with her identity as the daughter and mother of Tahitian women. She creates works of disarming aesthetic quality that subvert the language of oppression to disrupt the hegemonic gaze. Describing her art practice as “way-finding”, she navigates alternate ways of seeing and being seen. Her work explores questions of Pasifika identity, representation, and the beauty in the everyday, utilising three decades of creative work across performative self-portraiture, expanded documentary, still life, family archives, text, and personal audio recordings.

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