“Speaking with Light” is a provocative group show featuring work by more than 30 Indigenous photographers.
The exhibition “Speaking with Light” is a provocative group show featuring landmark images captured by more than 30 contemporary Indigenous photographers. It’s an exhaustive and surprising collection of photos that documents important shifts in the art form over the past four decades.
Organized by Will Wilson and John Rohrbach, the show acknowledges that the term “Indigenous” can be troublesome. Before the era of colonialism, native tribes were organized into scores of separate, sovereign entities with individual languages and cultural establishments. Grouping members of different tribes together in one show suggests every Native American shares the same perspective.
Such portraits were customary at the time and meant to document the negotiations between the tribes and the various entities that wanted their land and resources. The pictures are posed and peaceful and give no hints to what was really happening — that concessions of land by tribes were often forced and that agreements of protection were quickly broken by the government.
Some of them are straightforward and speak for themselves, such as Zig Jackson’s 1999 diptych, “Beat Them Savages, San Francisco, California/Praise Them Savages, Salt Lake City, Utah.” “Speaking with Light” also delves into fantasy with staged photos that make interesting observations about time and place. For his 2016 photo “Nothing Happened Here,” Jeremy Dennis concocted a photo of a contemporary Native American man sitting peacefully on a porch on New York’s Long Island with five arrows shot into his body.
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