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Baby Blues

Guia Besana

Published on 06/02/13

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BABY BLUES by Guia Besana

Fic­tion reveals truth that real­ity obscures” Ralph Waldo Emerson

This pro­ject, titled BABY BLUES, explores the emo­tional and con­flic­ted world women exper­i­ence dur­ing moth­er­hood through a pro­cess of sta­ging and sym­bolic rep­res­ent­a­tion of truth.

It might sound like a para­dox but I believe that con­struct­ing an image from an inner vis­ion can be as hon­est as record­ing it from real life. It is another way of show­ing some­thing oth­ers can relate to, respect­ing a dis­tance but demand­ing questioning.

Becom­ing a mother and facing new emo­tions led me to a dif­fer­ent kind of visual nar­ra­tion to describe what is true.

I used a large format cam­era to stage and recre­ate images where the sub­ject is a mother in a very spe­cific situ­ation and state of mind seiz­ing the ten­sion between what seems like an obvi­ous cir­cum­stance and a deeper implication.

In these images women are like frozen in a dif­fer­ent time, far from what is hap­pen­ing around them, like for­got­ten in a scene.
In an era in which West­ern women no longer have a “tribe” they belong to, where expect­a­tions are high and “burn-out” is a fre­quently used expres­sion, loneli­ness increases in moth­ers’ lives. These rep­res­ent­a­tions of female intro­spec­tion are con­tem­por­ary por­traits res­ult­ing from themes such as fear, loss, iden­tity, isol­a­tion, fusion and sep­ar­a­tion from one’s chil­dren and fleet­ing child­hood memory that recurs…

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