Jeanette Spicer, To the Ends of the Earth

To the Ends of the Earth

Jeanette Spicer

Publisher
GOST Books
Year
2024
ISBN
978-1-915423-48-1
Specifications
Hardback
240 x 310 mm
120 pages
55 images
Text by Marina Berio

The photographs in To the Ends of The Earth by Jeanette Spicer span 12 years and depict the underrepresented and often unseen dynamics of the relationships between a lesbian, her girlfriend and her mother. Jeanette Spicer initially began the project in 2012 when working towards her thesis and was interested in the boundaries and rules—particularly from a western perspective—of the interactions between children and their adult parents. She began to stage photographs and videos interacting with her mother in strange, intimate, disturbing and sometimes humorous ways. A few years later, it became clear to her that she was a lesbian, inspiring her to make the work from another perspective. Spicer felt that visual representations of lesbians interacting with straight parents were missing and she wanted to show what this relationship could look like. The series is often read from a heteronormative perspective—as if Spicer's mother, partner and Spicer herself are all straight women—mispresenting the lesbian experience.

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