RECONSTRUCTING FEMINA

This project represents a comparative study of a women's lives in XX century. It consists of collected material of four generations of women - data and photographs at their age of 27. Each country represents one phase. The idea is to do the research in, as many different countries as possible.
(The research in Jordan was helped by the Swiss cultural program)

Realization

The project consists of photographs, videos and audios. For each person will be printed out: her portrait and personal data, arranged from the oldest to the youngest. In addition, it includes audio recording of one important event in one’s life, which will be edited and played during an exhibition  (with each person speaking in her own language).

With this project I am questioning

- What mostly defines a woman through generations - heritage, family tradition or social and historical situation? 
- How much did the so-called emancipation influenced life choices of a woman?
- Are we the slaves of the prejudices when we claim that "things used to function in one way and now they do in another"?
- What are the differences, but much more - similarities between different countries, cultures and histories, represented through these personal stories?

Also

- How much can we find out about a person just by looking at a photograph?
- How much are our feelings towards being photographed reflected in the photograph itself and how much has it altered from those times when taking a picture was a luxury of a privileged few until now, when everyone can take a picture with their mobile phones?
With this project I don't wish to impose answers nor to favor past or present, nor one country or another but to enable the observer to make his/her own conclusions based on this cut though time and space, presented through lives of the women, bind together by one (and the same) moment in there life (at the age of 27) but separated by culture and social changes through history.