Closing Reception of This Heavenly Body

Norwest Gallery of Art

Celebrate the closing reception of  the photography and installation work by  Award- Winning Chicago-based imagist  Seed Lynn.

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THIS HEAVENLY BODY: A PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE BY SEED LYNNCURATED BY: ASHARA EKUNDAYOCLOSING RECEPTIONMONDAY MAY 26TH 12PM-5PM ABOUT THE EXHIBIT: Through film, photography, and installation, "This Heavenly Body" explores the significance of roller rinks as cultural and communal havens in the U.S. Midwest. At its core, the exhibition serves as a political response to the increasing closures of these sacred spaces of Black leisure and social connection across the country. Additionally, Lynn’s creative use of long-exposure photography highlights the Black skaters in natural light providing an ethereal quality making the figures appear “heavenly.”BIO: Born in Indianapolis, raised in New Jersey, and based in Chicago, Seed Lynn is an artist-activist, writer, imagist, and archivist whose work spans film, photography, and cultural documentation. His practice focuses on storytelling as an act of resistance, using visual and archival tools to amplify marginalized narratives. His "Storyographers" method has been applied across fields such as health promotion, intervention, policy advocacy, narrative justice, journalism, and education. Whether sensually, technically, or artfully applied, Lynn views the lens as an altered state where listening and witnessing make voice meaningful and creates new space where stories find students. Lynn’s own studies concern how we remember ourselves, how that memory is imaged, and how remembrance itself, in the face of oppression, is a healing act of love and protest.

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