Cristin Tierney Gallery, September 6–October 19, 2024, New York

The multi-dimensional experience—albeit only a taste of the wealth of Indigenous ecologies’—is the artist’s offering to the attentive viewer. Siestreem deftly mediates between the two realms, not only through her singular mastery of both Native and Western art forms but also her command of poetic language. Her haiku-like titles, such as un-ring bells (2013–24) or not enough sweetness in the world to drown you out /// so the tsunami came and washed you away (2024), convey an entwining sense of loss and persistence echoing throughout Indigenous communities as they contend with the ravages of settler colonialism and climate catastrophe. Yet such weighty messages are channeled through the whispering lightness of the lowercase, a minor mode of speaking that unsettles signification, like a soft breeze.

— Oct. 2024, The Brooklyn Rail

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