Participating Artists
DEMIAN DINÉYAZHI'
Portland, Oregon-based transdisciplinary artist Demian DinéYazhi’ makes work that disrupts structures of power through interventions, installation, written word, and performance. Their practice contemplates ways a marginalized body navigates and resists assimilation. For Memory of a Future Once Imagined, SVMoA and the exhibition curator worked with DinéYazhi’ to create a site-specific neon installation for the museum’s front window considering time, renewal, resistance, and Indigenous futures.
LAURA SKEHAN
Working between Dublin and Berlin, Laura Skehan premieres a newly commissioned installation titled In the Absence of Resolution, We Break Bread. Incorporating recordings from intimate dinner gatherings in Berlin, the sound and light installation reflects on foodways, migrated histories of sustenance, and the cultural impacts of colonization. Skehan’s practice—spanning moving image, sound, and sculpture—examines the rhizomatic structures that shape human relationships to the natural world and to one another.
CAROLINE MONNET
Anishinaabe and French Canadian artist Caroline Monnet, based in Montreal, works across film, installation, 3D printing, and fashion. Her multidisciplinary practice engages bicultural identity, Indigenous lifeways, and the reimagining of contemporary systems through Indigenous methodologies. The exhibition features Monnet’s new short film PIDIKWE, a wearable textile sculpture, and two-dimensional works inspired by the Anishinaabe practice of birch bark biting. Translating this traditional art form into contemporary visual language, Monnet bridges ancestral knowledge and present-day expression.
ADNAN RAZVI (WITH TAYLOR CLEVELAND)
Dallas-based Ugandan Pakistani American artist Adnan Razvi presents large-scale works from his ongoing MAWIMBI series. Razvi travels globally to bodies of water, where he creates multidimensional paintings on linen using sediment and materials gathered directly from each site. These textured, abstract compositions serve as metaphors for the movement of peoples across geographies and generations. The exhibition also includes a collaborative video installation created with Dallas-based artist Taylor Cleveland, animating the MAWIMBI works through a blend of futurism, documentation, and temporal layering.
RODRIGO VALENZUELA
Los Angeles-based artist Rodrigo Valenzuela contributes Future Ruins, an installation that merges photography, sculpture, and constructed environments. Born in Chile, formerly a day laborer in the United States, and currently a an Assistant Professor and Head of the Photography Department at UCLA, Valenzuela interrogates the histories and lived realities of labor through references to art and architectural history. Utilizing materials such as scaffolding, pallets, metal, pipes, and cinderblocks, Future Ruins blurs the boundaries between photography as documentary evidence and photography as constructed narrative, inviting viewers to question assumptions about truth, authorship, and permanence.
