Casa de Mujeres

In Casa de Mujeres, my mother plays the role of three women in one fictional Latin American home. These photographs are based on the oral stories told to me by my mother, family photographs, and the impact of colonization on the women of my family - their self esteem and economic reality. These images can be read as portraits of my mother as her various selves – like a nested doll, that reveal the conflict of colorism, hierarchy and rivalry, the psychic inheritance passed down between the women in one family, shaped by the context of history. In these photographs the three women, twin sisters, and a domestic worker symbolically represent the women of my family.