Eric-Paul Riege reimagines Diné weaving and cosmology at The Henry

ojo|-|ólǫ́ is an exhibition of recent and newly commissioned work by Diné artist Eric-Paul Riege (b. 1994, Na’nízhoozhí [Gallup, New Mexico]) that includes sculpture, textile, collage, and video, activated by moments of performance. Across this work, Riege combines customary Diné practices of weaving, silversmithing, and beading with contemporary cultural forms, exploring Diné cosmology, the history of Euro-American trading posts in and adjacent to the Navajo Nation, and the notion of “authenticity” as a value marker of Indigenous art and craft. Developed in partnership between the Henry and The Bell Gallery at Brown University, ojo|-|ólǫ́ emerged from Riege’s material research with Navajo collections housed at Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology and the University of Washington’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. The resulting body of work celebrates the ancestral knowledge and labor contained within Indi