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This photographic investigation relies on the nature of representation.

Reconstructing my mother in this self-reflective series, I aim to question the society that allows very limited field of gender expression. Intimate and playful dress-up, incorporating gestures and costumes from both feminine and masculine.

These images are grounded in intense experimentation and impersonating characters, while pushing and pulling in several directions at once.

As Susan Sontag writes in On Photography: ”To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves”. A picture is not just the result of an encounter between the subject and a photographer; image-taking gives the permission to interfere with the individual.

Familiar figure, constantly made strange by me, (She wanted to be named) Rebecca expands the notion of the representation of older women. In this theatrical transformation, the images examine interpersonal dynamics between a mother and a daughter. Even someone you think you are familiar with, is actually a possibility for looking at the world in a new way.