Play†Prey
Play†Prey
Leila Weefur et al.
2021. Poetry Collection. 5.5x8.5. 40 pages. Newsprint.
Edited with images by Leila Weefur.
Featuring writing by Elena Gross, Creighton Baxter, Ngozi N/A Oparah, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, and Gelare Khoshgozaran.
As a compliment to their multi-channel film experience, Play † Prey, artist Leila Weefur brings together voices of prayer and anti-prayer, inviting queer writers of color, Elena Gross, Creighton Baxter, Ngozi N/A Oparah, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, and Gelare Khoshgozaran to reflect on their relationships to God and the structures of religion.
About the artist
Leila Weefur (He/They/She) is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Through film & installation they examine the performative elements connected to systems of belonging, present in Black, queer, gender-variant life. An entanglement of beauty and horror evokes concepts of sensorial memory, architectural psychology, hyper surveillance, and the erotic.