BOND

My mom passed away at the end of 2017 when I had already recently lost my grandmother. I found the strength to face the loss and in 2020 I made a photographic series giving the pain a personal interpretation through the self-portrait. When someone dear to you dies, you have to choose whether to keep something of them or let them go altogether. As a daughter, I kept the clothes. Everyone has a smell. And when you decide to wear those clothes you take people with you along with the load of pain or joy.

Like animals, for which smell has a fundamental importance in mutual recognition, I found the smell in their clothes and marked the territory of my future by wearing them and taking them with me on my journey, from the mourning process to the projection towards my future and that of my family.