Siggie is a photographic project that uses a collection of domestic photographs to describe the complex and intimate relationship between a mother and her daughter. Lisbet Nielsen’s work takes the form of a delicate and intimate journey through time and space, and uses 48 Polaroid images to narrate the transformations, beauty and complexity of an everyday life suspended in time.
The photos, taken over a period of seven years during the 1990s, when Lisbet Nielsen lived in three diferent fats with her daughter Siggie, investigate the living spaces, conveying a sense of melancholic intimacy. A corner of the house, the furniture, a ray of light bathing the surface of a table, an open door to a kitchen where we can see a stove and a white chair, a snow-covered landscape, the close observation of lamps and cushions, are, together with a series of portraits of Siggie, from the age of twelve until her pregnancy at the age of eighteen, part of a simple and poignant narrative, whose poetic reality surpasses the enchantment produced by the images themselves to give us a further sense of truth common to all.