MOTHER NATURE, TREE WOMAN
MOTHER NATURE, TREE WOMAN is the fusion of the inner and outer worlds, the reencounter with our own wild nature.
Self-portraiture becomes an atemporal refuge of introspection where we can face ourselves in essence and dive into the void and uncertainty. It is also a way of reconsidering the places where we coexist with other beings and entities, a place to build ties of love, life and care.
This construction of subjectivity pretends to point out the importance of re-educating the mind and the way of looking, in a world where women's bodies -as part of land and nature bodies- have been and continue to be a power map used for consumption and abuse, being permanently objectified, censored, sexualized, labelled and subject to hegemonic socio-structural opinions and laws. Therefore, this is a wish to naturalise and normalise nudity, question androcentric perspectives, reclaim the validity of all bodies, forms and identities, and to partially return to our natural, animal and energetic intuition.
This project represents an act of resistance, self-defence, love, memory, provocation and (re)connection: the wish and will to support and embrace ourselves as part of Nature, to expand individual and collective freedom and to recognise vulnerability as something necessary, strong and natural.
It is an exploration of cycles:
The cycles of the trees we are, with all their facets and shades,
the cycles of light and shadows from day to night passing through winds and mountains,
the cycles of mother earth and primitive rock that are our home,
the cycles of the branches from a deep-rooted tree woman embracing mother earth and becoming a whole single home with nature and the universe.
The last images are part of the installation made for this project, where photographs and poems are transferred onto wood and stone.
The mountain meets the rock. The tree meets the wood.
In the central installation, 35 images of the same tree from my homeland symbolise the cycles of death and (re)birth, the roots and branches, the skies and chiaroscuros that a woman or a tree can experience.