Kindred Futures: Though Our Eyes
On view at the Clifford Gallery at Waterfall Arts, Kindred Futures: Through Our Eyes features works in sculpture, video, and digital collage by four Maine-based artists: Ashley Page, Eli Kao, Lokotah Sanborn, and Shane Charles. Exploring themes of language, land, environment, and memory through embodied experience and site-based processes, Kindred Futures: Through Our Eyes presents the artists’ explorations into creative placemaking. Layers of time are sifted through layers of making, allowing the invisible to emerge into view.
This exhibition invites viewers to see the world through the artists’ eyes, and envision a kindred future. The conversation generated between the artists’ works reckons with historical and present harm, while inviting visitors to imagine spaces of solidarity moving forward.
Co-curated by Ashley Page and Eli Kao.
[image on the left: Ashley Page, Haunted Hives, paper pulp, wire, hair, shells, beads, string, 2024. Photo credit: Eli Kao]
Complete Artist List:
Eli Kao
[image on the Right: Lokotah Sanborn, (on left) In Dreams of Birch and Mt. Katahdin, print on aluminum, 2023. (on right) Wawasint8da, still from music video made in collaboration with Mali Obomsawin, print on aluminum, 2023. Photo credit: Eli Kao]
Published on the Maine Arts Journal, read Kindred Futures: Through Our Eyes by Gianne Conard.
A special thank you to Amy Tingle and the Waterfall Arts team for hosting this exhibition.
Photos courtesy of Eli Kao.