Family Series

2024-ongoing

In the Family series, there are no family members present, only miniature furniture standing in for absent bodies. The work reverses the traditional “playing house” fantasy and the idealized female role embedded within it. As a child, I imagined becoming a perfectly organized mother through these games. As a child, I imagined these games could train me into a perfect and  organized mother. As an adult, I learned that life rarely follows that script. Using the visual language of domestic play, the project makes room for a more honest picture of contemporary womanhood.

The project also includes a video shot with an endoscope inside a flooded house. The submerged interior suggests a state of psychological entrapment, evoking the experience of being confined within a dysfunctional domestic space slowly overtaken by emotional overflow.