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The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art features a public piece along the museum’s windows called Queerpower by the Brooklyn artist Chitra Ganesh, which will be on display until next fall at the museum’s Soho location in downtown Manhattan. It celebrates the queer and transgender histories of the downtown scene, and the neighborhoods near the museum, and pays tribute to the trans and nonbinary activists of today, and in history. The artwork, says Ganesh, is “a love letter to New York City; imagining a futurity and an abundant utopia as the city continues to face one of the most challenging moments in its history.
“The scale of tragedy and suffering experienced here was unparalleled,” says the artist. “I wanted to honor this moment – to recognize the twin pandemics that shaped our 2020 – Covid-19 and racial violence. It was crucial for me to develop a queer utopia that was capacious enough to recognize that the ground we stand on is built in equal parts of abundance and violence, of celebration and dissent.”