Le’Andra LeSeur: After Stone, After Ruins (Notation 2)

February 12 – April 18, 2026

After Stone, After Ruins (Notation 2) is the second iteration in a three-part exhibition in which Le’Andra LeSeur explores the body’s response to landscapes shaped by historical violence. Through pilgrimages across coastal Georgia, LeSeur engages wayfinding as an embodied practice oriented through listening, attunement, and the discovery of subtle resonances embedded in the land. This act of wayfinding uncovers traces left behind, guided by the belief that absence does not equate to emptiness.

LeSeur allows the land to speak through two large-scale cyanotype and Van Dyke mixed prints, documenting her treks to Dunbar Creek, where the Igbo people refused enslavement in a collective act of defiance, and to Ebenezer Creek, where hundreds of newly freed Black people were abandoned to drown during Sherman’s March to the Sea. These fraught sites are geographically and spiritually connected to the historic Gullah Geechee baptism trail in Riceboro, underscoring the dual capacity of water to bear the weight of violence, but also to heal, hold, and renew.

LeSeur’s journeys and the resulting works enact a form of counter-mapmaking, revealing both the depth of information that remains inaccessible at these sites and the limitations of dominant narratives. She refers to this process as “a glitching of the delay”: the “delay” being the inconsistency of reliable information and the time it has taken to define the meaning of these events, and the “glitching” as abstract forms of language carried through soil, sediment, rock, and water.

Through physical intervention and meditative endurance, LeSeur’s inquiry considers how violence, silencing, and erasure shape bodily presence and perception, and how practices of repair can reframe our relationship to land, generating possibilities for reconciliation.

Le’Andra LeSeur is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans video, installation, photography, painting, and performance. LeSeur’s practice is rooted in an ongoing pursuit of liberation—examining how repetition and ritual become pathways to reclaiming space, visibility, and agency. Grounded in personal experience yet resonating on a broader scale, her work honors Blackness, queerness, and femininity while critically examining the societal structures that seek to suppress and silence these identities. Through the presence of her body and voice, LeSeur crafts immersive experiences that disrupt perceptions and resist imposed narratives, encouraging audiences to engage in deep reflection and recognition around themes of identity, collective memory, and the duality of grief and joy.

The artist has received several notable awards, including the Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2024), Leslie-Lohman Museum Artists Fellowship (2019), the Time-Based Medium Prize as well as the Juried Grand Prize at ArtPrize 10 (2018). LeSeur has appeared in conversation with Marilyn Minter at the Brooklyn Museum, presented by the Tory Burch Foundation, and has lectured at The New School, NY, NY, and the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, among others. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY; MFA Boston, Boston, MA; The Shed, New York, NY; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, and others. Residencies include Pioneer Works, iLab at The University of the Arts, Visual Studies Workshop, ArcAthens, NARS Foundation, Marble House Project, and MASS MoCA. Her work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.