VIRGIL ORTIZ

Sovereign Continuum

Date: 2026

Medium: Cinematic Projection

Provenance:

– Artist

– Trotta-Bono Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

Revolt 1680/2180: Sovereign Continuum extends Virgil Ortiz’s epic narrative from the 1680 Pueblo Revolt into a visionary future set in 2180. Through pivotal figures—Po’pay, the Blind Archers, the Recon Watchmen, the Sirens, and the Sikas—the work reimagines Pueblo resistance as an unbroken lineage of Indigenous authority.

Within this unfolding arc, Sika emerges as both guardian and witness—an embodiment of ancestral force propelled forward through time. Here, revolt becomes momentum, and sovereignty is realized as destiny.