Artist Sky Hopinka has unveiled a new site-specific installation titled 'Red Metal Dust' at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. The work consists of 11 panels that layer Hopinka's landscape photography with copper sheets, filtering American histories and landscapes through an Indigenous perspective.
The installation, on view through January, uses copper—a material of deep cultural significance to Hopinka's Ho-Chunk Nation and other tribes—to explore cycles of time and the diasporic nature of Native peoples. The work reframes the American landscape, asking viewers to consider the enduring yet evolving presence of Indigenous histories and relationships to land and material.