Crossings

Crossings is an ongoing project that investigates family ties and the way they transform over time and distance. Research grounded in the concepts of origin and tradition within the family sphere began in my previous project, Utaki , through an inquiry into the figure of the mother, the father, the house, and my own self. Now the work shifts beyond the intimate core of the family and incorporates other relatives, exploring the physical and symbolic territories they may come to occupy.

In addition to deepening the investigation of memory and ancestry, Crossings expands its focus to questions of identity, sexuality, and discovery. The idea of identity, which has a transitory character, is observed through the circulation between spaces, the distances, and the encounters that shape (non)belonging. Some time ago, I began a more intimate approach within a younger generation of my family, noticing alterities, echoes, and contrasts between experiences, desires, and expectations. This process creates a mirroring effect, in which I question my own trajectory while observing paths being traced by others ahead of me.

Even as the work moves away from the intimate family environment, the foundations of the research remain, and I continue to explore my own identity-related questions through forms of recognition and estrangement. How do we belong to a place when we are in motion? How do rituals and gestures adapt across generations?

Here, crossing is understood as a double movement: on the one hand, it is the passage from one place to another, from one stage of life to the next, with all its uncertainties, discoveries, and reinventions; and on the other, it is my own journey as an individual, leaving the intimate space of the family home to connect with other generations and stories. Photography, in this context, functions as a tool of connection between myself and the subjects, a bridge between the visible and the invisible, the individual and the collective, what has been and what is yet to come.