Cara and Diego Romero
Tales of Futures Past
Tales of Futures Past
Bringing together the work of photographer Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) and ceramic artist Diego Romero (Cochiti), Tales of Futures Past is the first exhibition focusing on the artistic dialogue between the two leading artists. While the husband and wife duo maintain individual studio practices, their work shares common themes concerning the complexities and the evolutionary nature of Indigenous identity and contemporary life.
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In his pottery, Diego addresses colonization, climate change, and environmental racism. Cara collaborates with friends and family to create compelling photographs that speak to the strength and diversity of her community and of Native women. Cara and Diego strive to establish agency through storytelling, and to address the past, the present, and the future of Indigenous lifeways. Both artists fuse elements of popular culture, ancestral traditions, and the supernatural to portray protagonists powered by their Indigeneity as they, and the world, continue to change. Within these varied worlds, they reimagine what things were, are, and could be.
Cara and Diego Romero: Tales of Futures Past is organized by the Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa. This exhibition is made possible in part through the generous support of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation.
