What does it mean, being a woman in 2021 in-middle of a pandemic? What is it like to be a woman outside of the Greek stereotypes and conservative standards who has not yet gotten married, and does not yet have children? Cultural and patriarchic codes define, still today how a woman is “complete” only if she feels motherhood through the traditional family-model which only seems like a rope around her neck…

Patriarchy forces in some point in our lives, or sometimes even through all of our lives, to cut out a piece of ourselves or even of our own body, or soul… (Birthing, surgery, family, personality…) As a creator and a woman I try through photography and interpretation, with images and metaphorical messages to cut the umbilical cord and the connection with patriarchy and move anyone who has been scarred by it, no matter the gender, sexual orientation or social status to dare do the same!

The work of Martha Rossler, Cindy Sherman και Francesca Woodman and everything they express and represent were the source of my inspiration and feedback so as to create this series of photographs.

With these pictures I sometimes criticize in a provocative way and other times in an ironical way by indirectly mentioning the old-fashioned opinion and behaviors that society denies constantly to leave behind, starting with the patriarchic model that looks like a huge infection that needs to be cured. Let it be a memory of a “fake” happiness in old photo albums and not as a behavioral motive that is reproduced and applauded.