Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger

Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger is the first exhibition to feature together the work of Watt and Luger, two leading Indigenous contemporary artists whose processes focus on collaborative artmaking.​

Exploring the collective process of creation, Each/Other will feature 26 mixed media sculptures, wall hangings and large-scale installation works by Watt (Seneca, Scottish, German) and Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European), along with a new monumental artist-guided community artwork. While each artist’s practice is rooted in collaboration, they have never before worked together or been exhibited alongside one another in a way that allows audiences to see both the similarities and contrasts in their work

"Collaboration and the creative process are central to this exhibition and each of the artists’ work,” says curator Lukavic. "In today’s society, value is placed primarily on the noun ‘art’ and not the verb form, or act of creating. Together, Watt and Luger show us the ways in which art moves beyond the end-product, beyond a static or luxury item, to become the very process of creation itself—unbound and limitless," said John P. Lukavic, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Native Arts at the DAM.

Each/Other will present the work of Watt and Luger divided into two sections that explore the artists’ engagement with community, materials and the land. A new collaborative piece will be located where the two artists’ works converge within the gallery. Works on view in Each/Other will consist of materials including carved wood, ceramic and fabric sculpture, photography, installation works with coconcertina and oil drums, videobased interpretive elements and documentation pieces to show past performance works by the artists.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website