With the recent Super Bowl LX Halftime Show starring Bad Bunny, let’s revisit the artwork he wore in collaboration with UNM Alum Eric-Paul Riege. During Riege’s first solo museum project, 𝘏ó𝘭ǫ́—𝘪𝘵 𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘻, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Bad Bunny wore 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘱𝘳 for a feature in Modern Luxury, “Bad Bunny on Being Unapologetically Himself,” by Patricia Tortolani (November 2, 2019).
With regards to his work, Eric-Paul Riege said the following: ““I am a maker and artist working in woven sculpture, installation, wearable art, collage, and performance. I honor the Diné (Navajo) worldview of hózhó which encompasses the values of beauty, balance, and goodness in all things physical and spiritual and its bearing on everyday experience. My work is a celebration of ancestral knowledge passed down by my mothers family. I am a descendant of weavers and fiber artists extending back to Na’ashjé’ii Asdzáá (Spider Woman); a Holy Person who protects Diné peoples and taught us how to weave. I consider all that I do a form of weaving. When there is a warp there is a weft and a cross (+) happens.
Going back to this collaboration between the two of them, in Diné language, hó𝘭ǫ́, means “to exist.” Some of Riege’s artworks including regalia for epr exist to be worn as regalia for durational performance, paying homage and linking him to generations of women weavers in his family.
An amazing collaboration between two amazing artists!
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