Screening will start at 6 PM,
drop-ins welcome.
In relation with October Exhibition –
Black and Indigenous Futures
work by Akira Iyashikei, bee rodriguez and Keshia Talking Waters De Freece Lawrence
October 5 – 29, 2023
featuring guest artwork by Kathleen Spirit Dancer Mann Crippen and Janey Hecht
On View Sundays
11 A – 2 P
The future of Black and Indigenous people is one of healing through the liberation of the land.
This photo document series is reflective of the awakening power that emerges from Black and Indigenous resistance movements that I have witness to, alongside my journey of deepening my relationship with land and using philosophies of the land to build a world outside settler colonialism.
In this second iteration of my largest body of work, I look at the lessons from the Winnemucca Indian Colony Frontline, in Winnemucca, Nevada, taking a further look into ego and trauma.
How does ego and trauma affect us in the way we show up to resistance spaces?
How can land help us heal and build a world outside of settler colonialism?
What is your relationship to land?..
- Akira,
Light that heals
Akira is an undocumented native from south central Mexico, whose work focuses on healing our relationship with land and our fight to liberate it from the power of coloniality.
At the age of three, Akira was brought to the states to escape the poverty of their village brought upon the economic devastation of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
After attending college in Chicago, 2015, Akira left the city to work at farms in the Midwest to further their connection to the land that had been severed by colonialism. Returning to the city in 2019, they started to use photography to capture the truths that came from witnessing frontlines in person. In the city and in the rural parts of the country, Frontlines mark the border between reality and illusion, and the connection modernity has to settler colonialism.