a point a place a home, 2025
Mekko Harjo and Jordan Hill
Kimura Gallery, University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska
November 7, 2025 – January 23, 2026
Indigenous Identities have been addressed, resolved, dissolved, learned, relearned, contemplated, constructed and deconstructed by generations of Indigenous Artists before us. We as Indigenous artists continue to engage in that work while also having been raised within the knowledge that Indigenous identities are plural, perpetual and can maintain–as it was before–a deep relation to the ungoverned. We as a generation of Indigenous Artists are finding different questions to tend to in our work. Finding place and space are transacted with spirit. We ask–where are we? And–how do we honor what we have?
When we find community camouflaged within unpinnable gatherings how do we locate ourselves outside of them? When these spaces exist, with seasonality like our lifeways, how do we navigate to and from them? How do we recognize, honor, and hold reverence for what has become tradition? How do we care for what has kept us here as our ancestors did? How do we mask and unmask the structures we are within?
Know there is no one answer, this intersected site of Indigeneity directed by the North. Resolving distance and disconnection by dissolving colonial notions of space, place and time. This collaboration creates concisely measured works by following Indigenously made ley lines and connections that reorganize concepts of tradition, place, material and sacredness to address active Indigenous existence. Here we participate in making an unlocatable site of place, play and community laid bare within an Institutional gallery space.
This is now a space of Land Back, place making and cultural autonomy that connects us to an uninsulated presence within and without walls. Take a moment, smell the wood and earth, and feel what has been and is held here.
- Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich