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# Sky Hopinka offers Bone and Light at Tanya Leighton
- URL: https://www.kinoki.co/sky-hopinka-offers-bone-and-light-tanya-leighton/
- Published: 2025-05-24T00:19:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-24T00:19:56.000Z
- Description: Sky Hopinka's solo exhibition Bone and Light in Berlin is his third with Tanya Leighton Gallery. The show debuts a new video art piece alongside recent photographs.
- Author: David Djordjevic
- Tags: News, exhibition, gallery, Indigenous, photography, video art

#### tl;dr

- Bone and Light is Sky Hopinka's third exhibition with Tanya Leighton Gallery.
- The exhibition is debuting the new video **He Who Wears Face on His Ears*.
- The video narrates the Ho-Chunk myth of Red Horn, a savior capable of traversing between the human and the mythic worlds.

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Sky Hopinka recently opened his solo exhibition [Bone and Light at Tanya Leighton in Berlin](https://www.tanyaleighton.com/exhibitions/bone-light?ref=kinoki.co), his third show with the gallery. Featuring recent photographs, the show pulls you into a world of rolling landscapes, evocative poetic imagery, and the ancient memories embedded in them. The exhibition also features the debut of a new single-channel video *He Who Wears Face on His Ears*.

Moving images, poetry and photography are [combined in Hopinka's practice](https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/75/3/12/120198/Desire-LinesSky-Hopinka-s-Undisciplining-of-Vision?ref=kinoki.co), where the artist draws upon personal and collective histories to contemplate the different facets of Indigenous identity – the methods through which knowledge is acquired, maintained and then transformed over time. His characteristic blending of visual and textual elements breaks down the barriers between the documentary and the lyrical, transporting viewers into a realm where they can intimately encounter Indigenous perspectives that resist linearity of narrative and expand the scope of seeing and knowing.

![An installation view in a gallery, with a lone wooden bench and a video screen with an image of an upside-down landscape with poetry in the shape of a spiral printed on it.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/98/98986ef2-474e-4f7c-82a5-62d592178e78/content/images/2025/05/hopinka_sky_bone_and_light_001.jpg)

Sky Hopinka, **He Who Wears Faces on His Ears*, 2025, HD video, stereo, colour, 8 minutes 46 seconds. Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Leighton, Berlin.

In his new video Hopinka grounds the narrative in the [Ho-Chunk myth of Red Horn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%5FHorn?ref=kinoki.co), a savior capable of traversing between the human and the mythic worlds, sent to Earth in human form to combat evil, dying in the process and ultimately revived. The cyclical nature of [Red Horn's story](https://hotcakencyclopedia.com/ho.RedhornContestsGiants.html?ref=kinoki.co) is mirrored in Hopinka's own approach to language, myth and cultural memory. Accompanied by a set of photographs shot by the artist at locations featured in his earlier films, and interspersed with calligrams ([poems where the words are arranged to evoke images](https://www.skyhopinka.com/calligrams?ref=kinoki.co) of mythical beings), Hopinka lays out the Ho-Chunk creation myth in its full splendor.

Sky Hopinka is [a filmmaker and visual artist](https://www.kinoki.co/artists-sky-hopinka/) of Ho-Chunk and Luiseño origin, whose explorations of Indigenous identities, mythologies and language uncover the indescribable beauty of reality between the crevices of fact and fiction. The exhibition Bone and Light is on view at Tanya Leighton until June 14, 2025\. For more about this event visit the gallery site [here](https://www.tanyaleighton.com/?ref=kinoki.co).