The Brooklyn Rail

Andrea Geyer started to photograph the German woods of her childhood over the recent years. Listening to the trees, the moss, branches, leaves, recounting her first queered feelings as a teenager alongside stolen time with other like–minded seekers. The photographs remind that Der Wald, abused as an image by fascists on both sides of the Atlantic, continues to survive such brutalization with its underground communication and support systems, maintaining resistance and resilience, even if barely sometimes. Geyer’s photographic works propose that as such it can offer queer bodies a physical and metaphysical space to find refuge and teach the capacity to remain present in proximity and precarity throughout. 

Andrea Geyer, “Borderlands,” 2022–ongoing. Screen-print and thread on paper, 32 3/4 × 22 1/2 inches. Courtesy the artist.