Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Presents CAN YOU SAVE SUPERMAN?

CAN YOU SAVE SUPERMAN?—a collection of new works by Jordan Eagles and curated by Eric Shiner—is now showing online at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

The collection draws on the 1971 Action Comics entitled Attack of the Micro-Murderer, in which Superman is infected by a super-virus and requires a mass blood transfusion. The exhibit aims to put a spotlight on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s discriminatory policies for donating blood and plasma. Today, in the era of COVID-19, gay and bisexual men who want to donate blood and antibody-rich plasma can only do so if they are celibate for three months. There is no celibacy requirement for heterosexuals, regardless of their risk for contracting HIV.

The experience includes striking details, full-color photography and also features a larger-than-life-size leaning panel, preserving the original comic book with the used blood collection bag and needle with residual blood, in a high-polished reflective resin.

Accompanying Eagles’ work is a first-person essay by Shiner, who draws on personal experience as well as major political and social events in recent American history in a call to action against the FDA’s discriminatory policies.

For more information please visit the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art website.