In My Mother is a Hippie, I deal with the hunting stereotypes of the mother whose love should and is “unconditional”. I explore the power and powerlessness that bonds so deeply within the mother-child relationship. I am fascinated with the unsettling duality behind the experience of motherhood. The constant forces of needing and wanting are crucial elements in the construction of mother-child relationship, and I try to present these forces on the photographs. I work with different “masks” of motherhood, trying to challenge the visual representation of motherhood as single-minded identity.
My Mother is a Hippie was selected for the main exhibition during Les Boutographies Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier in 2021, as well as projected during Riga Photo month. One of the portrait from the project is published in a collective publication Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood published by TeNeues in 2023.
