Hoówen

Living Land Collective

8 Dover Street, London, W1S 4LF

Oct 11- Nov 1, 2024

Living Land Collective presents Hoówen, an exhibition of 7 international Indigenous and Diasporic artists who are fighting to restore an Indigenous worldview. Living Land Collective provides insight into the realities of

living identities that have been harmed by genocide, occupation, language and culture loss, child theft, environmental destruction, displacement, rape, ethnic cleansing and assimilation.

Living Land Collective is composed of artists Claudia Ramírez Julio, Hayett Belarbi McCarthy, Henri Affandi, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, MARIA, Michael James Fox & Tyler Eash.

The London-based artist collective was formed as a living and working document of conversations between occupied and displaced peoples of the world. The artists use their respective practices to reclaim buried

discourses pertaining to post-contact identities that have been forcefully displaced or assimilated by an occupation and invention of “nations” that sought their erasure. Whilst the members all engage art as a

liberatory action to regain and empower their ancestral identities, the artists represent Land from diverse parts of the globe. Their practices speak to their respective causes and struggles for visibility, and make reference to

both ancestral wisdom and a longing for what was taken. Hoówen, a word of the living Selk’nam people of “Tierra del Fuego”, is the name for the natural forces and

spirits that undergo metamorphosis to become humans and nature to restore harmony. As the seven artists brought forward powerful acts of colonial defiance and liberatory visions of Indigenous Futurity in response to

loss, confusion, and grief, Hoówen was the word gifted to define the intentionality of Living Land Collective’s first project. Composed of painting, sculpture, film, photography and installation, Hoówen is a collective act of world

rebuilding that claims a sovereign territory in Mayfair’s Dover Street. The artists, who bridge opposing worldviews within their lives and bodies, seek to initiate healing between these states of being. Through a

collective sharing of global Diasporic and Indigenous strife and a meshing of our surviving ancestral wisdom, Hoówen proclaims Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples of the world as united and aligned for the protection of

the Earth and all her children.

Táisidam, Tyler Eash, 2019-2024

Excerpt of original 15:25 Film