INVISIBLE LOSS MOVEMENT

Lines of Continuanceresists any single story of what it means to be Indigenous today, holding personal and tribal histories alongside visions of the future, presence as something unfolding now rather than something to look back on. In theInvisible Loss Movement presented in the exhibition at the Denver International Airport (Concourse A), performance costumes and photographic documentation of Deal's performance project sits inside that idea without illustrating it from a distance, letting the audience experience, or in this case (costumes, photos & audio) imagine the figures performing and occupying site-specific space, even as the piece works to take visibility away. What can be imagined from this performance is happening in the same body, in real time, becoming proof in motion of something fully present and half erased all at once.

-SJY

The Invisible Series is about existing, but not existing. It's about being visible but invisible. A piece that is both literal and metaphorical, it uses the familiar image of Indigenous dance, spoken word, song, drum and occupying space physically and auditorily while taking away various things that inform the what is traditionally like color, music and environment. Using light to take away from the already monochromatic regalia creates play on shadow, light and definition, all standing as a metaphor to the Indigenous existence as we know it in the United States.

-Gregg Deal