Artist Statement
In the grout between tile cracks, in porcelain of tub walls, and in the crevices of skin is where you will find me.
Hair falls out of my head, caking up the drain. My cells litter the sides of my sink. Mirrors haunt me as every angle is more terrifying than the last.
My nails pick the layers of my skin becoming covered in blood and soaking with obsession. The scars of my forearms create indents so deep that I can feel my bones. My skin is full of embers. Flesh forever on fire.
I spend durations of my day examining myself and reapplying numerous medicated lotions. All in the hope that it will become just a little more manageable, for the pain to subside for a singular moment; allowing relief to seep its way in.
My largest organ is a collection of broken cells; a ruin.
Artist Bio
Ge Lemieux (they/them) (b. 2003) is a disabled interdisciplinary artist and framer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their work focuses on making autobiographical self – portraits as a way of examining and understanding themself. Their creative practice explores their chronic genetic skin condition, Keratosis Follicularis, and how living with this condition impacts their identity and gender expression as a non-binary individual. They are passionate about experimental lens based media and installation work as well as researching into the connections between art and medicine over the course of history. They received their undergraduate fine arts degree in Photography from Lesley University. While at Lesley University, they acted as the Director for the student run gallery, Gallery South, from 2022-2025. They have exhibited in the Greater Boston Area, most notably in the Raizes Gallery’s Deconstructing Disability show in 2024.