Ria Hiroki creates work where fat, brown, queer wahine are actively re-centering, re-imagining and re-indigneising representations of themselves and their bodies. Her celebrated collaboration, Reclamation, was the second project in the Basement’s inaugural New Vision programme. For her, she saw it as the opportunity “to stand in my power as a fat woman of colour. It’s a chance to celebrate the joyous, pleasurable, beautiful stories of indigenous women.
