Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe at the Hammer Museum

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Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe's works on paper feaure in Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibition highlights artists from North, Central, and South America who embrace the unpredictable nature of living materials and considers ideas around materials as records of the living and repositories of cosmic memory, organic decay and transformation.

Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe creates work tied to his observation of the world around him and the daily practices of his community, the Yanomami of the Venezuelan Amazon. Hakihiiwe keeps a notebook to record body and face paintings, spiritual chants, traditional knowledge about animals, the medicinal aspects of plants, and the patterns his people use in their material culture. These notes form the graphic basis of his drawings, which he expands with the addition of color and repetition as he transfers them to sheets of handmade paper using sugarcane, cotton, mulberry, banana, corn, and other materials.

Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials

Curated by Pablo José Ramírez, with Jessi DiTillio

The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

5 April - 23 August 2026