Events
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography
cameron peters for visura blog
Jan 10, 2023
Summary
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from October 30, 2022, to January 22, 2023.
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography
October 30, 2022 - January 22, 2023
Through the exhibition, viewers are encouraged to consider the work in relation to their own lives. While focused on the last thirty years, the exhibition intimately connects with the past. From the beginning, viewers are immersed in a room of delegation images, evidence of indigenous sovereignty. Subsequent chapters of the show include “Suvivance,” “Nation,” and “Indigenous Visualities.” As co-curator Will Wilson shares in the show’s accompanying virtual exhibition, “Photography has the power to tell amazing stories that can be generative in the way they transform the world around us through life, narration, and the perspectives of the makers.”
Artists featured in Speaking with Light include Jeremy Dennis, Nicholas Galanin, Sky Hopinka, Zig Jackson, Kapulani Landgraf, Dylan McLaughlin, Alan Michelson, Shelley Niro, Jolene Rickard, Wendy Red Star, Cara Romero, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, and Sarah Sense.
The Amon Carter Museum offers weekly tours of the show and a virtual multimedia exhibition experience on its website.
About the Curators
John Rohrbach is the Senior Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Will Wilson is an artist, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, and Photography Program Head at Santa Fe Community College.
About the Museum
Located in the heart of Fort Worth’s Cultural District, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) is a dynamic cultural resource that provides unique access and insight into the history and future of American creativity through its expansive exhibitions and programming. The Carter’s preeminent collection includes masterworks by legendary American artists such as Ruth Asawa, Alexander Calder, Frederic Church, Stuart Davis, Robert Duncanson, Thomas Eakins, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence, and John Singer Sargent, as well as one of the country’s foremost repositories of American photography. In addition to its innovative exhibition program and engagement with artists working today, the Museum’s premier primary research collection and leading conservation program make it a must-see destination for art lovers and scholars of all ages nationwide. Admission is always free. To learn more about the Carter, visit cartermuseum.org.
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous PhotographySpeaking with Light, organized by the Carter, is one of the first major museum survey to explore how Indigenous artists have leveraged their lenses to reclaim representation and affirm their existence, perspectives, and trauma. The exhibition...
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