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"Young Elder" at James Fuentes Gallery, New York


Group exhibition YOUNG ELDER

Participating Artists: Andrea Carlson, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Tyrrell Tapaha, and Nico Williams

Curated by Natalie Ball and Zach Feuer

James Fuentes Gallery, New York

September 8 - October 14, 2023


Video by L.A. Art Documents / www.laartdocuments.com


 

Text Source: www.jamesfuentes.com


James Fuentes is pleased to present Young Elder, featuring work by Andrea Carlson, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Tyrrell Tapaha, and Nico Williams and curated by Natalie Ball and Zach Feuer. In an episode of Reservation Dogs, a TV series about the lives of Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma, two influencers are invited to a community center for a Native American Reclamation and Decolonization Symposium. While rattling off self-righteous accolades, one of the speakers refers to himself as a “young elder”—an oxymoron that inspires a communal eye roll from the audience. The scene’s satire invites the question: what does it mean to express the wisdom of millennia through a contemporary practice? In Young Elder, four artists—emerging and mid-career—present recent work that references or applies Indigenous material and pictorial traditions as they are considered and carried on in the current day.




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