Install view at Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, 2025
Bone & Light Series
In Bone & Light, Hopinka brings into focus the contours of another way of knowing – one that does not rely on fixed definitions, but arises in the interstices between language and image, memory and place, past and present. Here, myth does not retreat into history, but continues to circulate – echoing across land, voice, and form.
This is the sigh of the sea
This is a desecration
2025
inkjet with hand scratched text and uv laminate,
framed
100×47.1 cm
39 3⁄8×18 1⁄2 in
unique
“Goodbye little father, and to what you left plucked from the branches of a pinery full of blight. Borne of blithe barriers. Bored of lithe longing. Thank you, Naani.”
This is what we became
This is a book of many thanks
2025
inkjet with hand scratched text and uv laminate
framed
97×47.3 cm
38 1⁄4×18 5⁄8 in
unique
“The sigh of the sea exhales longingly for the warmth of the sun. The crumbling earth collapses in grief, mourning the browning leaves, shorn in sable of another season now gone.”
This is an oblique resistance
These are their ribbons
2025
inkjet with hand scratched text and uv laminate
framed
97.6×47.8 cm
38 3⁄8×18 7⁄8 in
unique
“I read hungry you were hurt and we left the table clean. You are the vessel that defied the settled decline of easy goodbyes. I was devastated by the wealth of an unknown when, where we ate and we drank more than anyone could.”
This is the noise of time
These are young tears and old sighs
2025
inkjet with hand scratched text and uv laminate
framed
95×47.4 cm
37 3⁄8×18 5⁄8 in
unique
“Never sure of a pretend at play, positions of charm and lightning, flashed something kinder than the plain pain of an empty head. The histrionics of you always kept me captivated distracted and entertained.”
Here are a hundred affections
This is a song for Amy Ogmundson
2025
inkjet with hand scratched text and uv laminate
framed
96.2×47.7 cm
37 7⁄8×18 3⁄4 in
unique
“Our shadows have gone and left us behind, taking off somewhere beyond the horizon line. They’ve gone back to yesterday and that time when nothing was certain and the gray mist of memory fills pockets of light with shapes of familiar bodies laughing.”
Install view at Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, 2025