THE DAUGHTER

“The daughter” reflects on family life and the distance between generations, addressing the question of one’s role as a daughter within the family structure.The project originates from a personal story: years spent living far from my parents, whom I had not seen for seven years after leaving on a journey I never returned from. This experience coincided with the pandemic and subsequent political events in my home country, intensifying a sense of rupture with my native environment and the loss of external support.

These experiences intertwine with two perinatal losses, raising the question of an interrupted continuation of the family line — one that could have become a form of return and belonging.

In my practice, I work with self-portraiture and bodily presence as a way to explore memory and distance, amplifying a sense of isolation and fragmentation through separate visual fragments of the body.

I recreate and relive childhood memories through staged interactions with my parents, exposing the very nature of this bond. This becomes a way to register the rupture between past and present, between childhood and adulthood, between embodied memory and the impossibility of return.

The drama of the series unfolds within this in-between space — between roles, where identity is experienced as rupture rather than transition, and where tension reveals the loss of former intimacy and the finitude of life stages. This condition appears in recurring images of toy animals and cut plants, reflecting the fragility and interruption of the life cycle.

This tension resonates with the project’s visual language: the absence of color and the minimalism of space intensify a sense of timelessness and isolation. The line of self-portraits and object-based metaphors unfolds within a single bedroom, while images with my parents remain outside it — displaced into a space that exists more in memory than in the present.

The project explores a state in which familial connection does not disappear but loses its former shape. “The daughter” reflects an inner contradiction between the desire for belonging and its inevitability.