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Krueger reimagines queer modes of analog communication; weaving together printed ephemera and newspaper clippings to revisit the intimacy of classified ads and personal messages from the 1980s and 1990s. By positioning fantasy and constructed memory as vital tools for navigating history, Sweet Pea insists that queer intimacy is not only remembered but continually reimagined, extending past legacies into present and future conversations about belonging.
Drawing on archives, vernacular photographs, and modes of visual storytelling, Krueger examines how photography can be used to reconstruct, reclaim, and recontextualize LGBTQ+ histories that are often marginalized or obscured. Their work engages with themes of collective memory, intergenerational intimacy, and queer longing; navigating the photographic medium as both a document and a speculative tool. Krueger constructs the work in Sweet Pea through a process of rephotographing archival materials in the studio. Vintage black-and-white and color photographs sourced from eBay, alongside gay newspapers and magazines of the era, are collaged on wood panels and mounted onto enlarged adhesive prints of negatives.
Published by New Poetics Publishing
Softcover
9 pages
165 x 220 mm
ISBN 29815320
