Andrea Geyer | a promise of lightning

For this exhibition, Geyer created two new bodies of work: a promise of lightning, a group of quilted and embroidered multilayered silkscreens of dense forest imagery; and breathturns a multi-screen video installation. The imagery for both works is taken from the Black Forest in southern Germany (where the artist grew up and experienced her own queer formation). The works are interspersed with images of activist organizing and protest culled from the collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum, and are accompanied by a newsprint publication and newly released online database. The Future Is Now: An Impossible Archive Of Queer Advocacy And Resistance brings together information on more than 1000 LGBTQIA+ historic and contemporary organizations in the US gathered from online and offline archives, books, research papers, primary sources and oral histories.