What does a shared infinity look like? What shape could hold connections across existence, time, land, the cosmos and beyond?
For artist Dyani White Hawk, who is Sičáŋǧu Lakota, it’s the kapemni, an hourglass-like symbol composed of two triangles common in Lakota philosophy. The kapemni is a form that ripples through White Hawk’s decades-long career.
Standing in front of the towering new work "Infinite We” — a ten-foot-tall mosaic sculpture of colored enamel, copper and brass — White Hawk said this is the first time she’s transitioned the symbol to three dimensions.
“The kapemni form is a representation of really deep philosophies and generational knowledge and wisdom and worldviews boiled down to its most graceful, poetic artistic expression,” White Hawk said. “Taking that two-dimensional form and doing my best to represent that in three dimensions is a new artistic exploration.”
“Infinite We” makes its debut in the exhibition “Dyani White Hawk: Love Language,” opening Saturday at the Walker Art Center. The show is White Hawk’s largest to date, a milestone in an already distinguished career that includes MacArthur “Genius” and Guggenheim fellowships, and acquisitions by the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C.
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