Womb

 

My work is connected with my life and my past. I was 9 years old when my parents separated. I have no memories of them as a couple, my brain erased everything. The photographs of their past life were the only thing left to me. Portraits of my mother, again and again. The dissolution of their past, so quick, as if it had never existed, was saddening me. Then, my sadness turned into obsession. I looked ceaselessly at their pictures, searching what for me was missing; the simple idea of them two, together, happy. The smile of my other in these pictures…I needed to bring it back. I needed to make these photos real again, I needed to be the witness to their story. Womb is my answer to this need. I use photography to fix the past of my parents, to make it mine. Their past seems so tangible that becomes finally my present. Womb illustrates the impossible. Womb is a never-ending love story, a carnal and extreme desire to live in the ther and for the other at the same time.