A Float for The Future
The Armory Show 2021
A Float for the Future (Booth View), The Armory Show 2021
A Float for the Future (Booth View), The Armory Show 2021
Duhpaapilake (Twenty), 2021
Fabric with archival pigment photograph
20 x 28 inches
Axpiluupe (Twelve), 2021
Fabric with archival pigment photograph
20 x 28 inches
Axpisahpua (Seventeen), 2021
Fabric with archival pigment photograph
20 x 28 inches
Axpawatahpe (Nineteen), 2021
Fabric with archival pigment photograph
20 x 28 inches
A Float for The Future, 2021
The Armory Show 2021
For the 2021 Focus section, Wendy Red Star presents A Float for the Future, which reimagines the traditional Crow Fair Parade for an altered world. Central to the presentation is a papier-mâché Crow Fair Parade Car adorned with a larger-than-life honor bonnet conceived by Clive Francis Dust, Sr., known in Wendy's family and the Apsáalooke community for his creativity as a cultural keeper. Surrounding the car will be a new body of work created from images of parade cars from past Crow Fairs fashioned in ornate fabrics. Referencing the colorful saturation of her community, Red Star offers us a celebration of past and present as an answer to the question: how do we move forward?