The Verbier 3-D Foundation presents Sempervivum, a new site-specific sculpture by Cannupa Hanska Luger, created during the Foundation’s 2025 Artist Residency this Summer. Luger of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European descent works across disciplines to explore connections between land, community, material, and memory. His process for Sempervivum unfolded through listening deeply to the mountain, its rhythms, and its people.

Dividing his time between the studio and the mountainside, Luger collaborated with local artisans while constructing the work directly in the landscape. The sculpture draws on regional traditions, stories, and cycles of alpine life, inspired also by Hughes Dubois’ Formes & Façons, which traces inherited cultural forms of the valley.

The work takes its name from the alpine plant Sempervivum (Latin for “always living”), long seen as a protective talisman and symbol of resilience. Its Fibonacci spiral growth inspired the sculpture’s stonework, while steel “negative space lightning bolt” evokes both destructive natural forces and the plant’s protective role. Built of local stone, slate, steel, and hand-formed ceramics, the work becomes an archive of its surroundings and of collective memory.

At once shrine, shelter, and gathering place, Sempervivum resists singular meaning, offering space for reflection and dialogue with the land. With this work, the Verbier 3-D Foundation continues its commitment to supporting art that is rooted in place, responsive to environment, and engaged with community.

More information : 3-dfoundation.com