I stem from ancient times

'I stem from ancient times' combines three works: Eugenia, Look back in and Judith. Featuring old, analogue and recent, digital portraits of women on my mother's side of the family, they acknowledge the history within us that goes beyond our memories, yet make up for a substantial part of our identity.

'Eugenia' (01-02) intervenes on both sides of a small inherited, yet untraceable portrait from the beginning of the 20th century to hit on what is at the heart of ‘identity’: a face and a name.

'Look back in' (01-02-03), a self-portrait composed with portraits of my great-great-grandmother, my great-grandmother, my grandmother and myself, directly -as in skin on skin- addresses consanguinity.

'Judith', a portrait of my daughter merged with part of the cracks in the old portrait of my untraceable relative Eugenia,wonders about the marks our ancestors left us with.