“Energy is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed”
Discover what the world is saying about our project
The universe seen through a microscope
¿How was Innerstela born?
Gabriela Fuchs | TEDxCuauhtémoc
“Rethinking death in order to understand life.”
Tedx talk, Klagenfurt,Austria
Coverage in Milenio, Mexico’s national newspaper
Sobre la exposición en México
Further Reading/ Additional Features
La fotógrafa que vio el universo en las cenizas de su padre
EL PAÍS / Constanza Lambertucci
Spain
When photographer Gabriela Reyes Fuchs placed her eye to the microscope to see her father’s ashes, she felt her head split open and her breath leave her. Behind a magnified dark particle, the brilliance emerged as in an eclipse, the background shifting from yellow to orange to red. ‘I had just lost one of the pillars of my existence, and suddenly to see so much light… I could not understand what was happening, and there was no one who could explain why,’ she recalls.
Before placing the milligrams of ash under the microscope, the scientists had warned her that the image would be monochromatic, in black, white, and shades of gray. Instead, what appeared was a nebula of colors…
“Gabriela Reyes Fuchs,
The photographer who found a universe within her father’s ashes.
Victoria 147
When the father of artist Gabriela Reyes Fuchs passed away suddenly, she needed to find a way to cope with the loss. Almost by instinct, she took his ashes, placed them under a microscope, and beneath the lens she discovered the universe.
The photographer who discovered the universe in her father’s ashes.
Pijama Surf
The analogy is perfect, almost like the magical promise a father might make to his daughter when explaining life’s great questions: Where do we come from? Where are we going? Who are we?
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In the ashes, the cosmos appears—made visible to us through microscopes
Expansión / News Article
The art of revealing a cosmos within human ashes.
Tercera Vía MX
The project that revealed beautiful constellations within human ashes
Cultura Colectiva
The project with which a photographer portrayed the universe in her father’s ashes.
El sol de México
The remarkable project that reveals the universe concealed within our ashes
Viviana Cohen
Dead Soon, Gabriela Reyes Fuchs
Visual Arts
Death as a space to inhabit
Nexos, Cultura y Vida Cotidiana
Documentary Cinematography | Gabriela Reyes Fuchs.
Revista Pantalla
Exhibition
Galería Arte y Diseño