ALL REZ

Kéyah, Hooghan, K'é, Iiná / Land, Home, Kinship, Life

Kickoff Celebration with Axle Contemporary at the Maxwell Museum: June 1, 2024 @ 4-7 pm

On the road with Axle Contemporary: June 6 through 29, 2024

Keep in touch with the project team while they are on the road this summer through real-time updates in the Maxwell Museum and on the project website: www.allrez.net 

To support the project please visit our UNM Crowdfunding Project.

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The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Axle Contemporary are proud to announce a partnership with Diné photographer Rapheal Begay and independent curator Lillia McEnaney. ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K'é, Iina / Land, Home, Kinship, Life is a traveling, site-specific, experimental photography exhibition and museological project.

While the Maxwell will feature an installation of Begay's photography documenting his perspectives of these cultural themes within the landscape, the traveling portion of ALL REZ will take Begay's photographs back to his home community in the Axle Contemporaiy mobile artspace. The interior of the truck will be transformed into a welcoming space for reflection and conversation with the artist about his photographs and the cultural content held therein. As an exercise in creative place-making with the goal of fostering active storytelling, ALL REZ centers the voices and experiences of Diné community members, offering a reciprocal process of exhibition-making.

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Rapheal Begay is a visual storyteller based in the Navajo Nation. Informed by cultural teachings and land-based knowledge, he activates landscape photography and oral storytelling traditions to document and celebrate the Diné way of life.

Housed in a custom retrofitted 1970 aluminum delivery truck, Axle Contemporary is an art gallery on wheels that activates unusual venues, such as schools, restaurants, grocery stores, and city streets, thus, expanding artists' reach to diverse communities.

Lillia McEnaney is a museum anthropologist, independent curator, and freelance arts writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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For media inquiries, please contact exhibition co-curator and project manager, Lillia McEnaney (mcenaneylillia@gmail.com)