Opening Reception: Speaking Ancestors | [Re]Awakening Spirit

The Liliana Bloch Gallery is proud to present Speaking Ancestors / [Re]Awakening Spirit, a new exhibition by Kelly Tapia-Chuning that invites viewers to reflect on ancestral knowledge, memory, and stewardship that carry across the generations.

Rooted in the Indigenous principle of the Seven Generations, which is credited to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Iroquois Confederacy) but echoes across Indigenous cultures throughout the Americas, the principle highlights how our current actions are shaped by our ancestors, and in turn, we shape the generations yet to come.

Tapia-Chuning translates these principles into seven offerings, consisting of serapes that the artist deconstructed and reconfigured, each one representing a generation of ancestors. Tapia-Chuning uses symbolic materials as anchors across time that mark cycles of renewal, migration, grounding, protection, and guidance, resisting the linear constructs of time.