Created by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN On an early morning in 2008, in advance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened for the day, the artist Yuki Kihara sat down throughout from two paintings by the French artist Paul Gauguin and inspected them in the hushed, empty gallery. The Japanese and Samoan artist, who was exhibiting at the New York museum at the time, was particularly fascinated in “Two Tahitian Women of all ages,” from 1899, which characteristics two feminine figures in an Eden-like environment. A person holds a flower and leans into her companion, who provides a tray of fruit to the viewer, but will not quite seem up to…