Quetzal Maucci
Lens-based Artist & Educator
Based in London, UK
Open for commissions, teaching, exhibitions, and collaborations.
Lens-based Artist & Educator
Based in London, UK
Open for commissions, teaching, exhibitions, and collaborations.
Years: 2019-ongoing
"Piccoli Baci" (Little Kisses) is a photographic exploration of my relationship to my father who I did not meet until I was 23 years old. The project combines family photographs, collected keepsakes, intervention photographs, and my own photographs from our first encounter. The work is guided by letters that I have written directly to my father. Through the project, I unravel feelings of meeting someone who is biologically a part of me, but who I know nothing about.
A family album was once physical and curated by the family. We would subconsciously and consciously edit, remove, and decide which photographs were best to present in our albums.
I am curious about the photographs we do not include. The ones that were cast aside, ripped, and sealed in a box. I am curious about those photographs that are still a part of who we are and a part of our personal memory, and yet cannot live in the ideal family album.
We are all part of complicated family structures that transform over time. My story is intertwined not only within my nuclear family, but within the parts that are unseen. This project is seeking to explore my relationship to my father while exploring notions of belonging, family, memory, and identity.
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