Eu & I
This project explores ideas of memory, migration and self-representation through significant objects and family heirlooms. I believe that objects become tools in which a person’s identity is imprinted, and by using photography to capture this gives the viewer a different perspective on the object itself.
As I had to move from Romania very suddenly, I only got the chance and possibility to take a few things with me when moving to England. This sequence of images includes photographs from old family albums, objects I kept through the transition, both cultural and personal. They represent my past but also who I am as a Romanian woman. Although the sequence follows a storyline, the images are also paired depending on colour and pattern. Old photographs from the family archive are overlapped onto images I took of the handmade embroidered textiles. This creates a sense of reflection from a present point of view onto a past memory or object.
Exploring the relationship between human and object, the home and the migrant self, helped me depict my identity and explore past memories.