Ritual of Mythmaking: Reclaim is an invitation to participate in ceremony. The exhibition will take viewers on a journey through time and space, exploring multiple Indigenous pasts, presents, and futures, resulting in a collective cycle of healing that embraces beauty, death, release, and abundance.
Myth making and ritual are central to Indigenous cosmology. These practices expand across time and space from Turtle Island to Abya Yala (the Western Hemisphere), becoming tools for collective liberation that (re)imagine and (re)create the world we live in. Through myth making, narratives are created and shifted that change self, community, and culture.
The artworks featured and co-created with community members are one of the many ways Indigenous Past (Indigenous Traditions) and Future (Indigenous Futurism) are merged, highlighting the hybrid forms of existing Indigenous people, both locally in California and across the world.
The journey begins with the detailed ancestral weavings of Rusby Marisol Tum Xinico (Maya Kaqchikel) and the bold graphic prints of Sean Guerra (Chicanx). Next, viewers will pass through the fertile depths of the earth as they experience the film Chaac and Yum, a reimagined contemporary romantic narrative of Chaac, the Mayan deity of Rain, and Yum, the Mayan deity of corn, by Xav S-F and Daniel Arizmendi/Snowflake Calvert (Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Yaqui). Finally, viewers will make their way through the present, through the experience of death with the works of Tz'utu Kan (Maya Tz'utujil) and Polaris Castillo (Nahua/Mexikah), releasing colonialism and systemic white supremacy and transmuting the pain through ancestral practices, finding the way in the future. The future is illuminated by Alvaro Tzaj Yotz's (Maya Tz'utujil) vivid painting Ixkan, and world building installations by Shreya Shankar. Looking to the colors, textures, faces, and sounds that indigenous relatives imagined helps to find the path to collective liberation. Ritual of Myth Making: Reclaim centers healing, creates expansiveness, and offers visions of the future for Indigenous peoples.
Image Credits:
Image #1: Alvaro Tzaj Yotz_IxKan (2019)
Image #2: Sean Guerra_Flor De Palabra (2022)
Image #3: Tz'utu Kan_Oxi Keme (2022)
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Myth making and ritual are central to Indigenous cosmology. These practices expand across time and space from Turtle Island to Abya Yala (the Western Hemisphere), becoming tools for collective liberation that (re)imagine and (re)create the world we live in. Through myth making, narratives are created and shifted that change self, community, and culture.
The artworks featured and co-created with community members are one of the many ways Indigenous Past (Indigenous Traditions) and Future (Indigenous Futurism) are merged, highlighting the hybrid forms of existing Indigenous people, both locally in California and across the world.
The journey begins with the detailed ancestral weavings of Rusby Marisol Tum Xinico (Maya Kaqchikel) and the bold graphic prints of Sean Guerra (Chicanx). Next, viewers will pass through the fertile depths of the earth as they experience the film Chaac and Yum, a reimagined contemporary romantic narrative of Chaac, the Mayan deity of Rain, and Yum, the Mayan deity of corn, by Xav S-F and Daniel Arizmendi/Snowflake Calvert (Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Yaqui). Finally, viewers will make their way through the present, through the experience of death with the works of Tz'utu Kan (Maya Tz'utujil) and Polaris Castillo (Nahua/Mexikah), releasing colonialism and systemic white supremacy and transmuting the pain through ancestral practices, finding the way in the future. The future is illuminated by Alvaro Tzaj Yotz's (Maya Tz'utujil) vivid painting Ixkan, and world building installations by Shreya Shankar. Looking to the colors, textures, faces, and sounds that indigenous relatives imagined helps to find the path to collective liberation. Ritual of Myth Making: Reclaim centers healing, creates expansiveness, and offers visions of the future for Indigenous peoples.
Image Credits:
Image #1: Alvaro Tzaj Yotz_IxKan (2019)
Image #2: Sean Guerra_Flor De Palabra (2022)
Image #3: Tz'utu Kan_Oxi Keme (2022)
Ritual of Mythmaking: Reclaim is an invitation to participate in ceremony. The exhibition will take viewers on a journey through time and space, exploring multiple Indigenous pasts, presents, and futures, resulting in a collective cycle of healing that embraces beauty, death, release, and abundance.
Myth making and ritual are central to Indigenous cosmology. These practices expand across time and space from Turtle Island to Abya Yala (the Western Hemisphere), becoming tools for collective liberation that (re)imagine and (re)create the world we live in. Through myth making, narratives are created and shifted that change self, community, and culture.
The artworks featured and co-created with community members are one of the many ways Indigenous Past (Indigenous Traditions) and Future (Indigenous Futurism) are merged, highlighting the hybrid forms of existing Indigenous people, both locally in California and across the world.
The journey begins with the detailed ancestral weavings of Rusby Marisol Tum Xinico (Maya Kaqchikel) and the bold graphic prints of Sean Guerra (Chicanx). Next, viewers will pass through the fertile depths of the earth as they experience the film Chaac and Yum, a reimagined contemporary romantic narrative of Chaac, the Mayan deity of Rain, and Yum, the Mayan deity of corn, by Xav S-F and Daniel Arizmendi/Snowflake Calvert (Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Yaqui). Finally, viewers will make their way through the present, through the experience of death with the works of Tz'utu Kan (Maya Tz'utujil) and Polaris Castillo (Nahua/Mexikah), releasing colonialism and systemic white supremacy and transmuting the pain through ancestral practices, finding the way in the future. The future is illuminated by Alvaro Tzaj Yotz's (Maya Tz'utujil) vivid painting Ixkan, and world building installations by Shreya Shankar. Looking to the colors, textures, faces, and sounds that indigenous relatives imagined helps to find the path to collective liberation. Ritual of Myth Making: Reclaim centers healing, creates expansiveness, and offers visions of the future for Indigenous peoples.
Image Credits:
Image #1: Alvaro Tzaj Yotz_IxKan (2019)
Image #2: Sean Guerra_Flor De Palabra (2022)
Image #3: Tz'utu Kan_Oxi Keme (2022)
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Myth making and ritual are central to Indigenous cosmology. These practices expand across time and space from Turtle Island to Abya Yala (the Western Hemisphere), becoming tools for collective liberation that (re)imagine and (re)create the world we live in. Through myth making, narratives are created and shifted that change self, community, and culture.
The artworks featured and co-created with community members are one of the many ways Indigenous Past (Indigenous Traditions) and Future (Indigenous Futurism) are merged, highlighting the hybrid forms of existing Indigenous people, both locally in California and across the world.
The journey begins with the detailed ancestral weavings of Rusby Marisol Tum Xinico (Maya Kaqchikel) and the bold graphic prints of Sean Guerra (Chicanx). Next, viewers will pass through the fertile depths of the earth as they experience the film Chaac and Yum, a reimagined contemporary romantic narrative of Chaac, the Mayan deity of Rain, and Yum, the Mayan deity of corn, by Xav S-F and Daniel Arizmendi/Snowflake Calvert (Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Yaqui). Finally, viewers will make their way through the present, through the experience of death with the works of Tz'utu Kan (Maya Tz'utujil) and Polaris Castillo (Nahua/Mexikah), releasing colonialism and systemic white supremacy and transmuting the pain through ancestral practices, finding the way in the future. The future is illuminated by Alvaro Tzaj Yotz's (Maya Tz'utujil) vivid painting Ixkan, and world building installations by Shreya Shankar. Looking to the colors, textures, faces, and sounds that indigenous relatives imagined helps to find the path to collective liberation. Ritual of Myth Making: Reclaim centers healing, creates expansiveness, and offers visions of the future for Indigenous peoples.
Image Credits:
Image #1: Alvaro Tzaj Yotz_IxKan (2019)
Image #2: Sean Guerra_Flor De Palabra (2022)
Image #3: Tz'utu Kan_Oxi Keme (2022)
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1131 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
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