Weitman Gallery presents What It Means To Be Here by Jeanette Spicer.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“In the series What it Means to Be Here I make photographs, mixed media, and videos to grapple with the absence of lesbian photographers, the lesbian gaze, and the long history of patriarchal constructs that shape our ideas of the female form, and the creation of images. I capture the intimacy between Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer women from my community of friends and lovers with a sense of ordinariness and reverence for sex, and pleasure with agency, and spontaneity. Through this work I call into question the historic lack of lesbian representation within the photographic medium with which I engage.”