Gee Horton: Chapter 4 In Another Lifetime

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Gee Horton’s "Chapter 4: In Another Lifetime" unfolds across two galleries of the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, continuing a new chapter of an evolving body of work. Through large-scale photorealist drawings, photography, collage, video and installation, Horton reflects on Black masculinity, generational memory and childhood, exploring themes of safety, vulnerability and the boundary between freedom and protection. In his preceding work, "Chapter 3: Be Home Before the Streetlights...," Horton examined the call to return home. "Chapter 4: In Another Lifetime" explores what we inherit once we arrive. The narrative-driven exhibition features Horton’s loosely autobiographical account of the struggles of Freeman Little, a 37-year-old Black man living with Guent Bu Wa, a rare hereditary sleep disorder that causes vivid, prophetic dreams.