“Griefs, blows, pain, abandonment, sadness, depression. Will I ever be like you? Oh! Mother who threw me into the world.... Read More
“Griefs, blows, pain, abandonment, sadness, depression. Will I ever be like you? Oh! Mother who threw me into the world. I hope not, because I could be condemned by the genetics to a sad and weak madness”
(Eva Resende, 2017 from the textual file).
The autobiographical archive consists of the artist’s analog photographs. These often display places of her home and the University.
More precisely, they display memories of places of comfort as well as of trauma, which are connected by the highway A32, a route taken daily by the artist.
Despite not considering this project confessional art, examples such as Tracey Emin or Nan Goldin, the work operates within an open narrative due to the chosen photographed elements.
The repeated use of the same photographed element elevates the photographed subject (in this case the mother) somehow to a symbolic state. This repetition is used in a therapeutic and cathartic way to overcome the "death drive".
