Pua Kumbu is an ancient Eastern Malaysian weaving technique in which silk and cotton are worked into patterns that come to the artists, it is said, by ancestors who place the patterns in the artists’ dreams. The Malaysian artist Anne Samat uses this traditional technique alongside found objects from her home and local 99-cent store. Samat’s vibrant wall sculptures, inspired by her family history, loom large. Homage is typically paid to deceased family members, and the works in this new series are smaller in scale and focus on her relationship with her siblings. The labor-intensive, ancient practice, combined with 21st-century materials, reflects the fragile yet harmonious balance between antiquity and modernity, a relationship at play in shaping one’s Indigenous identity. —Lucy Horowitz