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?

Geyer’s is the second project in The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art’s Interventions series, which invites LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural producers to engage the Museum’s collection and creatively present their research, building new narratives and interpretations from diverse subjectivities. The Interventions series offers a unique platform for public access to the Museum’s artworks, establishing a new avenue for showcasing the expansive and historical collection that Leslie-Lohman has acquired over five decades.

Programming for the exhibition includes Come out with joy, speak out for justice: A Queer Salon: a series of gatherings that offer an urgent organizing space at a moment in which election politics has targeted the lives of communities all across the country.

Curated by Stamatina Gregory, Head Curator / Director of Exhibitions and Collections