Rosy Simas transforms ancestral memory into a living, immersive encounter at the Walker Art Center.
26 May 2026
At the Walker Art Center, Rosy Simas unfolds a space where movement, memory, and material practice converge with profound emotional precision. The Seneca artist’s ambitious new commission, ‘A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:’ (i hope it will stir your mind)’, emerges from a two-year residency that resists the neat divisions between performance, installation, sound, and sculpture. Instead, Simas offers an embodied meditation on kinship, Indigenous knowledge systems, and the possibility of cultivating what she describes as a “mind of peace”.
Drawing on genealogical research and Haudenosaunee corn-husk twining traditions, the exhibition centres on suspended handwoven vessels that function as both sculptural forms and familial presences. The result is neither archive nor spectacle, but something more intimate: a choreography of remembrance that invites viewers into states of reflection and relationality.
Simas’s transdisciplinary language moves fluidly between the visual and the somatic, foregrounding Indigenous continuities that persist despite histories of rupture and erasure. In a cultural moment marked by fragmentation, the exhibition proposes another rhythm altogether, one rooted in reciprocity, collective care, and the enduring resonance of ancestral knowledge.
This exhibition is on view at the Walker Art Center, Minnesota until 5 July 2026.
