Surveillance Mound, 2021, adobe mud, tape, steel, wood, wire, paint, 89.5H X 19W X 19D inches.
Document Mounds- Application for Enrollment with the Indians of the State of California Under The Act of May 28, 1928 (6 pages), 2021,
inkjet print on vinyl, tape, adobe mud, and steel, 24H X 16W X 7D inches each.
Sending Signals Into The Ground To Form Images Of What Is There To See, 2020, adobe mud on paper, 60 X 96 inches.
Stretcher- For The Transportation Of Water, 2021, adobe mud, tape, steel, wood, wire, 54H X 56W X 27.25D inches.
True Arch- The Span of An Enclosure (Diptych), adobe mud and graphite on paper, 52 X 40 inches.
False Arch- The Span of An Opening (Hexaptych), adobe mud and graphite on paper, 120 X 52 inches.
Coming Home
ICA San Diego
August 21 - October 31, 2021
In Coming Home Christine Howard Sandoval explores the history of California Indigeneity and its relationship to the archive, a place in which collective memory is stored. In California, the documentation constructed by settlers embodies a narrative of erasure but is also embedded with the seeds of Indigenous knowledge paramount to the reconstruction of Indigenous language, cultural practices, and relationships to the land. Howard Sandoval works with the archive to trace the migration of her Chalon Ohlone ancestors, telling the story of her community, her family, and her coming home to California. (Full Text)
Curatorial text by Guusje Sanders
Photography by Philipp Rittermann