Throughout the year 2022, Geyer collected and studied U.S. based narratives related to white nationalism, Christian nationalism, fascism, the far right, militias and neo-Nazism across various print and online news...
Throughout the year 2022, Geyer collected and studied U.S. based narratives related to white nationalism, Christian nationalism, fascism, the far right, militias and neo-Nazism across various print and online news outlets. In plein-air (2023), the artist presents this research in a grid of 228 silk screen and digital archival prints, juxtaposing text with abstracted images of the forest. This ghostly archive recalls some of Geyer's earlier works, such as Feeding the Ghost (2019), in which personal history, cross generational trauma, and collective memory are collapsed into a non-linear narrative.
Reflecting on nature as a vessel for individual and collective memory, Geyer exposes the seemingly silent residue of fascist ideologies still present in U.S. culture today. The work reveals how personal and political histories are inherently connected, despite – or perhaps precisely because of – their dichotomies.