(Simple) harmonic motion

This body of work unfolds within the fragile space between three generations: grandmother, mother, and daughter. Through the granddaughter’s lens, the images trace shifting terrains of perception, inheritance, and belief. After forty years apart, mother and grandmother live under the same roof. The project began with the youngest family member’s return from abroad, when the three women reunited in Athens. Though bound by family ties, each follows her own path, shaped by lived experience and inherited ways of (un)seeing. What first appears as connection gradually reveals itself as projection, sustained by a need for recognition and approval. The work observes subtle shifts in intimacy. Roles seem defined by age, yet remain unstable. Each woman both inhabits and resists the position assigned to her. Care circulates without settling; it becomes unclear who nurtures and who seeks to be nurtured, where certainty begins and where it dissolves. Misunderstanding is not a conflict but a condition. Within this matriarchal structure, emotional patterns reverberate across generations. Time unfolds nonlinearly as gestures, tensions, and remembered roles recur. At its core, the work asks whether, in resisting what has shaped us, we inevitably come to reproduce it.