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Cannupa Hanska Luger: Speechless

Through July 6, 2025

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
2001 Campus Drive
Durham, NC 27705

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Cannupa Hanska Luger, Watȟéča, 2023.

In SpeechlessCannupa Hanska Luger (2020 Awardee) explores and amplifies the problematic colonial history and the concept of cargo cults from an Indigenous perspective. Cargo cults developed as a result of Western military campaigns that sent crated, often airdropped, supplies to foreign lands inhabited by Indigenous peoples. In Luger’s words, the exhibition “flips the Western gaze back on itself to reflect that in present-day North American culture, we are all in a cargo cult.”

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Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger wears a black shirt and beaded necklace, with hands in his grey jeans pockets, he is standing in front of his monumental clay bead artwork titled Every One. Photo: Brendan George Ko. Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multi-disciplinary artist of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European descent who uses social collaboration in response to timely and site-specific issues.

Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger wears a black shirt and beaded necklace, with hands in his grey jeans pockets, he is standing in front of his monumental clay bead artwork titled Every One. Photo: Brendan George Ko.