PLAY, LAY, AYE: Navigating queerness, where space is always in flux | Painted steel, expanded metal, and plexiglass, Installation at The Bass Museum, Miami Florida, 2019.
PLAY, LAY, AYE, explores a contemporary queer interpretation of tête-à-tête,
a classic French design, which translates to "head to head". This interpretation
is a modernist take on the tête-à-tête, once used as a place of hiding, to be
undercover, for queer folks and lovers to meet in public and have discrete
and secret conversations.
In GeoVanna’s modular reincarnation, the structures’ endless orientations
aims to honor the intersectional realities of our identities. The structure acts
as an intimate meeting point with its completely open design acting as a
declaration, a place to not feel shame or need to justify one's self.
Play, Lay, Aye invites artists and activists, POC, womxn, queer, trans and gender
non-conforming folks, who navigate their art, poetry and music as a form of self-empowerment to sit in the structure and reflect, gather, and share their ideas of openness and outness.
Photo credit: Vaco Studio