The album of the talking flowers

As a researcher-hunter of my own singularities and subjectivities, I retrospectively evoke my mother’s history in order to create an autofiction, a kind of fragmented psychogeography of her persona and the spatial-temporal realms inhabited by her. I delve into the review of my family album and my own photographic archive to subvert their contents as a strategy of resistance against the dominant discourses of patriarchal control.

My work is a poetic tribute dedicated to my mother, because we are both far from the land where we were born; because we are both far from each other; and because the passage of time activates the oblivion in my mother, erasing the certainties and stories that have defined us. That demented oblivion that has taken over my mother’s mind urges me to set her up in a new existence to transform her story. Through collage, I create a maternal cartography of habits, metaphors, illness, and dysfunctional narratives.

On the other hand, besides my mother, there are other protagonists: the flowers. They play a very important role as the thread of emotions and moods. Historically, many symbolic meanings have been attributed to them based on silence, vulnerability, and secrets… but flowers also represent life and the passage of time very well.