The first joint exhibition in Europe by two leading artists from North America’s First Nations explores what objects in collections reveal about the institutions that preserve them. Who decides what is preserved, and what stories circulate among people, objects, and places? The title of the exhibition Crested/mâcistan speaks of water as a source of community, responding to Galerie Rudolfinum’s position along the river Vltava. In both the Czech lands and the Americas, waters have transferred objects and knowledge between peoples — including the Czech glass beads that are sewn into the exhibition’s story. Yet, rivers and oceans have also carried colonial expansion and Indigenous dispossession. Crested/mâcistan traces such flows and circulations, to suggest new relations through listening, handling, teaching and care. More