Sky Hopinka: Lore February 11 – September 24, 2023
In this video work, images of friends and landscapes are cut, fragmented and reassembled on an overhead projector as hands guide their shape and construction.
Meanwhile, a voice tells a story about a not-too-distant past, a not-too-distant ruin, with traces of nostalgia expressed in terms of lore. We see knowledge and memory passed down and shared not from wistful loss, but as a collage of rumination, reproduc- tion and creation. Sky Hopinka, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a descen- dant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, is a filmmaker, video artist and photographer who has received numerous honors for his innovative approach to cinema including a 2020 Gug- genheim Fellowship, a 2021 Forge Project Fellowship and a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship. Hopinka layers imagery, sound and text to center personal perceptions of Native homelands, as well as correlations between language and culture in relation to home and land. “Deconstructing language [through cinema] is a way for me to be free from the dogma of traditional storytelling,” said Hopinka “and then, from there, to explore or propose more of what Indigenous cinema has the possibility to look like.”
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk and Luiseño, b. 1984), stills from “Lore,” 2019.
Curator: Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art
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