Stella Gere

About

I am a London based photographer/artist. 

“All the world began with a yes one molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began.”  Clarice Lispector , Hour of the star.

For me this is an important quote when making and thinking about my own practice. The overwhelming heavy feeling of exists, to be alive. It feels complex and huge as I try to digest the idea of the universe and pack it into my brain. Yet it all started somewhere. To make work is the simple act of just doing. Piece by piece something comes into exists even if that exists feels futile, that is part of the point. For my own work I am focusing on the most, in my opinion, profaned thing. Flesh it simplicity in just being yet I am deeply fascinated by its presence in the world. From hanging meat to the scars on my mother’s body.  The strangeness of the meat sparked a question in me about the link between ideology of consuming and the voyeuristic nature of the flesh. The photograph captures our mortal flesh allowing it to do the impossible which is to live on beyond us.