Nudes nominee

The first connection a human being forms is with the mother, already in the womb. This space functions as an origin of life, intuition, and relational knowledge. Here, initial perceptions of safety, proximity, and the world are shaped. The womb holds memory and energy, linking women to embodied wisdom and to generations that came before.

In adulthood, a tension emerges between autonomy and connection. Women navigate the space between forging an independent path and carrying an intergenerational legacy marked by loss, adaptation, and a complex relationship to womanhood. Within this legacy, however, resides resilience and a drive toward healing and transformation.

“For Our Daughters” is an artistic investigation into intergenerational trauma and the mother wound. The project examines how unconscious patterns of guilt, shame, and self sacrifice are transmitted through mother daughter relationships, and how awareness can interrupt these cycles. Through introspection, boundary setting, and the redefinition of relational ties, the work creates space for emotional release and new frameworks of feminine self understanding. My path toward motherhood is part of this search for freedom for myself, my daughter, her daughters, our daughters.

BIOGRAPHY/STATEMENT
I am an autonomous artist working primarily with photography. My practice is driven by a desire to explore the boundaries of human expression and to investigate how meaning emerges through repetition, attention and presence. The thematic focus of my work lies in intergenerational trauma within female lineages. I explore how experiences, patterns and silences are transmitted from generation to generation, and how they become embodied in both behaviour and the physical body.

Ritual needs are acknowledged within my work and consciously transformed into ritual artworks. Everyday gestures, habits and inner movements are translated into visual rituals that create space for processing, awareness and transformation. By slowing down and carefully framing moments, I create a setting in which what has remained unspoken can surface.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
My work has been nominated for New Dutch Photography Talent GUP, Fine Art Photography Awards. And I received an honorable mention in the category Women Seen by Women at the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards.

I began my artistic education at Fotoacademie Amsterdam, I completed the intensive performance programme at the Marina Abramović and studied Ritual Design at the University of Humanistic Studies.

EXHIBITIONS
London, Barcelona, Venetië, Paris Photo Days, Amsterdam, Glasgow