Indigenous Futurity by Cara Romero featured five prints from the artist’s latest body of work in 2023. These playful and surreal images bring Indigenous knowledge, sciences, and culture to the forefront. In the artist’s own words: “The work I’ve made within the genre of Indigenous Futurisms came from a deep creative space of wanting to play, of wanting to be imaginative, of wanting to talk about those connections to time and the power of Indigenous women.”

After it’s display at the inagural edition of PhotoFairs 2023 at the Javitz Center, Romero’s installation was moved to Fotografiska to complement the concurrent exhibition Listen Until You Hear, curated in collaboration with For Freedoms. Along with the six artists included in that exhibition, Romero likewise explores the importance and power of a historically marginalized demographic in America. We invite you to enter Romero’s world where the knowledge and culture of Indigeous people is honored, revered and a powerful asset to us all in our shared futures. Romero details her process and contextualizes each photograph in the accompanying image labels.

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Cara Romero (b. 1977) is an enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, whose unique photographic practice fuses time-honored and culturally specific symbols with 21st-century ideas. Romero’s award-winning photography is included in numerous public and private collections internationally.

Special thanks to Cara Romero and Todd Bockley of Bockley Gallery.