LE’ANDRA LESEUR 'MONUMENT ETERNAL' REVIEWED IN ARTFORUM

 

Kate Green, Contributor

Le’Andra LeSeur: Monument Eternal at Tulsa Artist Fellowship | Flagship

View of Le’Andra LeSeur: Monument Eternal, 2025–26. Photo by Dan Farnum. Courtesy of Tulsa Artist Fellowship.

In the March 2026 issue of Artforum, Kate Green reflects on Le’Andra LeSeur’s Monument Eternal as a meditation on death, resilience, and spiritual perseverance. Beginning with a question posed during a death workshop organized in conjunction with the exhibition—“How do you want to die?”—Green situates the project as an inquiry into how confronting mortality sharpens the urgency of living.

Grounded in LeSeur’s embodied engagement with Stone Mountain and expanded through sculpture, sound, and industrial steel works memorializing Laura and L. D. Nelson, Green writes:

“The idea that confronting death can lead to a more meaningful present grounds ‘Monument Eternal’. … Subjecting steel to photographic processes and making monuments to people history would rather not remember, LeSeur works against forces of great resistance. Without re-presenting violence, the results are a meditation on death that hopes to inspire the living.”
— Kate Green
 
 
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