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Andrea Geyer, a promise of lightning, 2024. Work in progress with photographs by JEB (Joan E. Biren), Sara Swaty, Ann P.Meredith, Ellen Shumsky, and George Dudley, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
WHEN:
Sep 04, 2024 - Jan 12, 2025
WHERE:
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
26 Wooster Street
New York, NY 10013
TICKETS:
For more information and tickets visit the Leslie-Lohman website.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...Geyer takes form and inspiration from the network of connections made among trees in the forest—a vast, evolving web of visible and invisible layers in which resources, distress signals, and memories are in continual exchange, and intergenerational communication is key to survival. Interspersed among silkscreened prints and video documentation culled from southern Germany's Black Forest (where the artist grew up and experienced her own queer formation) are images of organizing and protest from the Museum's collection, proposing ways to rethink queer histories of activism, organizing, and representation.
"Taking its title from a line of Audre Lorde’s 1973 poem “Movement Song,” which explores both loss and hope, the exhibition asks: How can queerness be considered as a form of multi-temporal relations to and within wider hegemonic cultures? How might still-underknown frameworks of the natural world conceptually and emotionally expand our capacity for resilience?…"
