Sky Hopinka: The Myth Is Now is a poetic and deeply personal exploration of Indigenous culture, history, and language using film, photography, and text. Hopinka uses both experimental and documentary artforms to reclaim and center Indigenous perspectives often left out of art and film. His artworks and installations that consider the relationship of identity, memory, and myth, interrogating how different stories persist and transform across generations.

This exhibition presents three projects that explore how place informs belonging. In the series, Unforgiven Souls Sing Hymns, Hopinka examines faith and survival through photographs that re-present oral traditions as living, breathing narratives. “Situated at the East End of Devils Lake” reimagines language as landscape in both printed and digital form, its text expanding spatially across the gallery wall in the shape of a flying goose. The video “He Who Wears Faces on His Ears” focuses on the Ho-Chunk story of Red Horn–one of five central spirits in Siouan oral traditions who moves between worlds, embodying both death and renewal. Here, Hopinka considers how ancestral stories reverberate within contemporary landscapes, echoing through clouded horizons and interior terrains.

Across the exhibition, Hopinka invokes poet Yves Bonnefoy’s idea of the “arrière-pays”—unreachable remote areas—as a metaphor for searching for our spiritual homelands. His works map journeys toward places that exist between languages and across worlds, where the seen and the unseen, the spoken and the remembered, converge.