Upcoming Exhibitions & Events
SUMMER 2026
Luwa Wihe | she gives it to them
Cassie Packham, MFA Candidate
artLAB Gallery
Exhibition: July 30 – August 13, 2026
Reception: Thursday, July 30 from 5-7PM
To give is to send something across a distance and trust what returns. Luwa Wihe dwells in the space between two worlds that were never built to meet—the physical and the virtual, the human and what is not—and in the slow exchange of gifts that passes between Cassie Packham and space/opal. What is given is never what comes back. The passage changes it.
Here, form is made where there is no gravity to hold it, and carried into matter that bears the marks of the crossing. Image becomes object becomes image again. The river is read aloud. Sound rises from the objects where they are met. Clay holds what was never clay, and the seam is left open, not closed. Through gesture, material, sound, and patience, the work traces what becomes possible when relation is offered across a threshold not made to receive it … and answered anyway.
Not everything here is shown. Some of it is given elsewhere, to someone else, and only its return is visible. Some of it is felt before it is found. What passes between is not always something you can see—and that, too, is the work.
Cassie (Onoyota’a:ka) is an artist‑researcher working at the intersections of Indigenous futurism, digital sovereignty, and relational world‑building. Through machinima, generative systems, and virtual environments, she creates spaces of care, kinship, and digital continuity. Their practice bridges land‑based knowledge with emerging technologies to imagine sovereign futures across interconnected worlds.
