Referring to the attempt of an emotional orientation between two overwhelming events in the path of an individual, such as the death of the mother and the experience of motherhood, Dimitra Dede’s book “Mayflies” proposes a sensitive and diaristic visual exploration that sees precisely these two serious events put in relation.
In the meantime of the elaboration of the mourning, the author experiences, discovers and reports the intimate joyful and difficult experience of becoming a mother. Two distinct moments that nevertheless find a temporal and expressive concreteness in the same space.
By contrasting the stylistic features of death and its painful elaboration with those of a new exploration of oneself and one’s own body gained in relation to motherhood, the author creates hybrid images, in which warmth and joy are associated with cold and icy surfaces, a landscape or “world” that suffers the arrogance of life in progress.