Following the announcement of the gallery’s representation of Indigenous American filmmaker Sky Hopinka, Tanya Leighton is pleased to present an outdoor film screening of Hopinka’s ‘Kicking the Clouds’, ‘Dislocation Blues’ and ‘Lore’. The films will play at sunset on August 20th in the gallery’s courtyard. 'Kicking the Clouds’ originates from a tape recording of the artist’s grandmother learning an ancestral language from her mother. This audio becomes the impetus for Hopinka’s investigation of his own mother’s life and highlights the artist’s penchant for poetic documentary, and the seamlessness between the personal and the political. ‘Dislocation Blues’ is an incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock. Cleo Keahna recounts his experiences entering, enduring, and leaving the camp and the difficulties and the reluctance in looking back with a clear and critical eye. ‘Lore’ combines text and poetry with transparent photographic imagery. As the artist’s hands manipulate the physical forms and construction of the photographs, Bo Diddley’s 1955 ‘Heart-O-Matic Love’, is performed faintly in the background. This screening anticipates Hopinka’s first solo exhibition in Germany, opening at Tanya Leighton Berlin, January 2023. Sky Hopinka (born 1984, Ferndale, Washington) lives and works in New York. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent solo exhibitions at LUMA, Arles, Broadway Gallery, New York, and Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester in 2022; Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Block Museum of Art, Chicago, Vorspiel/transmediale, Berlin, and VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal in 2021; Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, Tate Modern, London, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, and CCS Bard (curated by Lauren Cornell), Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson in 2020, just to name a few. Hopinka's work is included in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, San Francisco; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Whitney Museum, New York; Kadist, San Francisco; Milwaukee Art Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Northwestern Mutual, Milwaukee; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton; and Princeton University Art Museum, amongst others.