ARTIST STATEMENT
The Summer Grass, or My mother's eyes through her last 15 years
Photos of my parents are my useless attempts to catch up with time.
The pictures are like a "dead space", like the dark forest of my memory.
Photos are the chaos of my soul, scattered through my bottomless archives.
I was looking for shots where my mother saw me shooting ? I wanted to find
signs of the onset of Alzheimer's disease and traces of some kind of relationship with her, leaving only her face in the pictures of different years, without making any other retouching in the frames, other than bringing them to the same format. I tried to select two or three of her hundreds of pictures each year that she might like.
Flipping through the photos of the series quickly back and forth, I see something like a movie… as if my mother is reviving, growing younger,telling me something untold.
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