Singing Water Stone

Solo exhibition  

Singing Water Stone illuminates a maternal lineage of Indigenous resistance and re-presencing from the furthest extents of erasure. This multimedia constellation features original works by artist Siku Allooloo alongside archival enlargements from the historic newspaper, Indígena: News from Indian America, founded by her late mother (Taíno activist and journalist, Marie-Hélène Laraque) during the Red Power Movement. Spirit Emulsion – an experimental short filmed on Super 8 and developed by hand with plant medicines – connects earth to cosmos as flowers portray family love and ancestral sovereignty extending into the future. With Interface, a poem printed on silk, Allooloo reaches into the afterlife to connect with her Inuk grandmother, invoking ancestral love and connection as protection from colonial violence. A production still from her current work in progress (a feature documentary titled Indígena) shows the artist, six months pregnant, being ceremoniously adorned in a cave where Taíno have sought refuge from hurricanes and made offerings to the spirit world since time immemorial. Borrowing from the artist’s Taíno name, Singing Water Stone reflects the continuous struggle for liberation and rebirth that flows between mothers and daughters, across borders, by way of sacred homelands and the spirit world, spiraling endlessly throughout time.

January 22 - March 5, 2026
Access Gallery

Installation photos by Rachel Topham Photography