Mother’s Day 2020
I was fascinated with the experience of pregnancy and wanted to record my own physical state. Later I continued photographing pregnant friends aiming to express the beauty a woman feels in her body that contains another one. Whatever discomforts she may bear seem trifling compared to the sacred power of her new female identity, as if she contains the whole world and is suddenly connected to all other mothers and to the cycle of generations, past and future. But she keeps these thoughts to herself while all the attention is focused on the infant, not on the mother. The extraordinary metamorphosis to motherhood is still strangely ignored in our society. In contemporary visual media there is no suggestion that feminine beauty can be associated with fertility. How odd that people are often uncomfortable with this subject, so awe-inspiring yet so normal. After all, every one of us came to this world by way of a mother.
A book of this series is in preparation and an exhibition at L’Espace des Femmes, 35 rue Jacob, Paris.
