Aimilia Balaska

With what images do you recreate the sense of home, when you have lost your mother at an early age, your father is absent, and you are sexually harassed by a relative? Eventually, I realized that the idea of home was there in my family albums. In the beginning there is rage. Rage towards your mother, who died and left you. I appropriate family photos and I erase the faces, I burn them, I stick needles, I damage my face, my relatives, all those who have been hurt, have remained silent or have afflicted pain on me. This is my story but, in a sense, it can be applied to many families if you change the scale of pain, of restriction, of guilt. The hidden faces have names, they have stories – stories that are brought to light and raise discussions. The works oscillate between metaphor and reality but, ultimately, they make me move forward.