AFTER STONE, AFTER RUINS (NOTATION 1)

Savannah - December 27th, 2025 - Cleo the Project Space in collaboration with Atlanta Center for Photography and Swivel Gallery is pleased to present After Stone, After Ruins, the newest body of work from Le’Andra LeSeur: 

“In recent years, I have become increasingly interested in exploring the body’s response to sites of historical violence across the U.S.—both those that serve as catalysts for violent acts and those where such acts have occurred. What continues to move me is not only the depth of information that remains unavailable at these sites but also the limitations of the narratives that do exist, often restricting how these histories are acknowledged and honored.

With my work, I seek to uncover the traces left behind at these sites, guided by the understanding that absence is never truly empty.

At Dunbar Creek, where the Igbo people refused enslavement, choosing death in a collective act…