Women's self-identifications are multiple, acting out numerous roles shaped by social, cultural and personal circumstances. This sets up a vicious paradox, pitching individual resilience against broader societal denials of female independence. Often when women want to realise their self-worth, they are frustrated by an expectation to be dependent and subordinate. As mothers, women are also confronted with a tension between their maternal role and other competing identities.
This project uses photographic-based installation to explore my mother's experience as an independent woman and mother. The exploration considers her self-perceptions, inner sense of contradiction while understanding societal repression, culminating in experiences of helplessness, pain and self-denial.
My overall aim is to help eliminate the social disciplining that leads women to self-deny, lose self-worth, and to criticise those structures that generate this oppression. A particular focus is the contradictory attitudes that exist to motherhood.
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