Ritual of Myth Making: Reclaim

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Feb. 10 – Mar. 20, 2023 with events Feb. 10, 11 + Mar. 14

Root Division presents Ritual of Myth Making: Reclaim, curated by Katherin Canton & Mariana Moscoso.

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. Ritual of Myth Making: Reclaim centers healing, creates expansiveness, and offers visions of the future for Indigenous peoples.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS

Polaris Castillo
Sonia Conguache Rancho
Sean Guerra
Tz’utu Kan
Rusby Marisol Tum Xinico
Hoi-Fei Mok
Xav S-F and Daniel Arizmendi/Snowflake Calvert
Xicha Sagrada
Shreya Shankar
Alvaro Tzaj Yotz

EVENTS:
Community opening ceremony: (2 Aq’ab’al) Fri Feb 10, 2023 l 4-6 pm
Second Saturday opening reception: (3 K’at) Feb 11, 2023 l 6-8 pm
Community Closing Reception: (8 Tz’ikin) Tues Mar 14, 2023 l 4-6 pm

Presented by Root Division

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