In Procession Immemorial, Losel Yauch creates a riderless cavalry. Commissioned by The Rubin Museum, the installation presents visitors with a procession of 5 silk-clad life size horses suspended in time as well as space, standing in wait to march on an endless journey. On looms she built herself, the artist created the armor from recycled sari silk, while making the frames for the horses out of willow branches. She wove depictions of her grandfather’s memories and stories of Tibet; the poignancy of the many sacrifices made to protect the sacred and preserve freedom. The inclusion of saddles was inspired by the Rubin’s Tibetan saddle on display nearby. 

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A third-generation member of the Tibetan diaspora community, Yauch uses tapestry, and sculpture to celebrate and highlight fragments of Tibetan culture and iconography. Many of the recurring symbols include Tibetan Buddhist iconography as well as imagery based on stories her grandfather told about growing up in Kham, an eastern region of Tibet. 
 
Yauch’s Procession Immemorial explores her relationship to her cultural heritage as an outsider to Tibet. Having grown up in New York, her vantage point is consequently many times removed, and she conveys a sense of mourning about what has been sacrificed and forgotten, as the Tibet of her grandfather’s memory no longer exists.   

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The exhibition traveled to Wrightwood 659 by Tadao Ando in Chicago later in 2024.