Niniwas- to belong here, 2022, single channel video with audio, TRT 12:23, Sound design in collaboration with Luz Fleming
Installation for the green shoot that cracks the rock, parrasch heijnen gallery, LA, 2022
Image courtesy of parrasch heijnen gallery
Installation view, the green shoot that cracks the rock, parrasch heijnen gallery, LA, 2022
Stretcher- For The Transportation of Water, 2021 adobe mud, tape, steel, wood, wire
54 x 56 x 27-1/4 inches
the green shoot that cracks the rock
May 27 – July 16, 2022
Parrasch Heijnen is pleased to present the gallery’s first exhibition with Vancouver-based Christine Howard Sandoval (b. Anaheim, CA, 1975) featuring the artist’s architectural drawings, sculptures and experimental film.
Howard Sandoval’s embodied work confronts the complex history and innate interconnection of land and body. As she traces a path to her ancestral home, the artist scrutinizes the narrative of erasure in early North American settler’s records and reassigns power through documentation of embedded Indigenous cultural practices. Her poetic oeuvre seeks to weave a collective awareness back to nature by means of a more cyclical and deepened relationship with land and place.
The land, as an ever-evolving being, plays a central role in Howard Sandoval’s visual language. Taking adobe as her main medium, the artist explores its inherent properties of historical, familial and ecological histories. Adobe mud requires a bodily process to mix soil (sand, silt and clay), water and often straw to form a workable, malleable and ultimately structural material. In this ongoing investigation, she emphasizes the intentionally omitted history of forced labor, land theft, and the violent genocidal actions Indigenous people experienced.