“Infinite Weight is self-reflexive, a kind of feedback loop for facsimile; in which a taxidermied wolf stands simultaneously in the gallery and on land trapped within the frame of a video loop. The absence of the living wolf is mirrored between image and object, it’s marginalized to exist only on the ceiling, while its inability to move is confirmed by time-lapse. The work itself is also a mirror, reflecting the extent to which colonization and settlement of my homeland has sought to capture and control what is determined valuable and to destroy or marginalize what is not.

Recognizable across cultures, the wolf is only desirable within anthropocentric capitalism as a trophy of conquest or where it is determined profitable. Wolves are inherently important to the survival of all life and healthy ecosystems in the lands to which they are Indigenous; yet their survival continues to be endangered by extractive practices stemming from unsustainable anthropocentric ideologies. The wolf in the work carries more than its own weight; it carries the weight and the waiting of all life determined less-than-valuable, critiquing the practice of devaluing, and destroying life in favor of control and artifice.”

— Nicholas Galanin on Infinite Weight