PORTFOLIO - PHOTOGRAPHY
LILLY ZHUANG
[THREE EXCERPTS FROM A SERIES]
01. MY MOTHER WAS A GIRL ONCE (’23)
[Guanghan, CHINA]
“home sick”
[35mm scanned and copied onto A4 paper]
Juxtaposing her mother’s stories of childhood with the reality of what she found in her family’s hometown, this series of images portray the fragility of personal memory within a rapidly changing sociopolitical landscape in Guanghan, China.
MY MOTHER WAS A GIRL ONCE is an attempt - and the ultimate failure - to come to terms with the artist’s own roots, growing up so far away from the spaces her mother knew as a child.
“GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE/PARKING LOT”