Non-familiar self-portrait

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Non-familiar Self-Portrait is a photographic project started in 2020, when I returned to live with my mother. The essays present our bodies within the domestic space, proposing scenes from fantastic situations in which a gesture of affection is often accompanied by a violent action.

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With these images, I seek to talk about the ambivalent feelings that permeate family relationships and have become taboo in the face of imposed ideals about motherhood, unconditional love and parental responsibility.

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In the title, “non-familiar” refers to the psychoanalytic concept Das Unheimliche, which concerns something that is not exactly unknown, but presents itself in an atypical way, causing a certain disquiet.