Trees, Queers, Queens. Series of 8 screenprints/Collage, 70x100cm each, Irène Mélix (2025/26)
– if I am a storyteller, this is a sort of wall newspaper, telling queer history from multiple angles at once: those of the trees, the press, the archive, the queers, and perhaps even the residents who cut the trees down.
A few days before Stonewall in the summer of 1969, a lesser-known queer protest at the south end of Corona Park in Queens reclaimed space after trees were cut down to erase cruising—this work brings that history together through archival material, historical press images and drawings, alongside contemporary photos I took during my residency at @iscp_nyc Thanks to @lesbianherstoryarchives for the archival material.
Thanks to @riesaefau and @efa.rbpmw for running the fabulous screenprinting workshops in Dresden and New York!
