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SFMOMA presents "New Work: Raven Chacon" opening to the public Saturday, October 24. Member Previews:
Friday, Oct 23, Noon–5 p.m.
Saturday, Oct 24, 10 a.m.–Noon
Pulitzer Prize–winning composer and artist Raven Chacon brings Diné worldviews into his sonic and visual practice to amplify Indigenous voices and sovereignty. For his first West Coast solo exhibition, the artist takes museum visitors on a journey through the vast landscapes of Navajo Nation. In the seven-channel video installation The Naming of Names, Chacon brings Ray Bradbury’s science fiction narratives together with found footage recorded by foreign travelers in the 1950s and ‘60s.
These silent film excerpts drawn from the Prelinger Archives in San Francisco are accompanied by a soundtrack of field recordings and electronic music composed by the artist. Chacon reimagines the desert and canyons in Southwestern tribal lands where he is from as otherworldly, disrupting the limited representation of history and challenging the colonial gaze behind these images. Layered topographical drawings of Tséyiʼ (also known as Canyon de Chelly) on Earth and Valles Marineris on Mars are exhibited alongside the installation, linking canyons from different celestial bodies together while collapsing time and space.
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Header image: Raven Chacon, "The Naming of Names", 2026 (still); image courtesy Raven Chacon and Prelinger Archives; © Raven Chacon
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