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Greg Semu ‘Auto portrait with 12 disciples’

Published 2017

This work is from a series of images he created in 2010 while in residency at the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia and directly references the iconic 15th-century fresco by Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper in Milan, Italy. Here Semu is not only the creator/photographer but the subject too. He is the central Jesus figure, resplendent in his Samoan waist-to-knee pe’a tattoo, with local Kanaks as the 12 disciples, set before a feast of traditional Samoan food.

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Auto-portrait with twelve disciples
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