Bockley Gallery is honored to open the first solo gallery presentation in the United States by Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta). Wičháȟpi Owihaŋke Waníča Kiŋ (Infinite Collapsing Star) extends Kite’s generative relationship to Lakȟóta ontologies and methodologies with a focus on black holes. Within the artist’s wider care for cosmologyscapes – interactions between human-human and human-nonhuman, land and cosmos, and the spectrum of landhood and beinghood – black holes have multiple material manifestations in the exhibition, alongside and within the ancestral gifts and technologies of mirroring and dreaming.
In a new series of deer hide wall works and a site-specific installation combining river rocks with glass beaded clusters, Lakȟóta geometric semiotics translate dream fragments, while doubling as graphic scores for sonic performance. The single-channel video Pȟehíŋ kiŋ líla akhíšoke. (Her hair was heavy.) highlights one of Kite’s earliest works in her decade-long practice of developing body interfaces and machine learning across sound, video, and performance.