In this project, I wanted to address the expectations of cultural adaptation (and even the position
of the adopted child as a commodity) in an autobiographical-looking, fictional set up with three
western women who potentially could have been my (adoptee) mother.
Notice how I unconsciously mime the body language and postures of my three could be-mothers.
Pointing to other scenarios, pluralised structures that normally appears as absolute (one mother =
one child) are re-launched in parallel, equal realities - revealing both the vulnerability and the
universality of the notion of family and its representation, also inter-racially/culturally. What is
absent in the picture is the father. In a sense, this situation mirrors that of the actual birthmother to
the adoptee in the pictures, and a situation where one mother is not able to keep her child, and
another has the possibility to raise him/her, taking over the label of being "mother".
Year: 2004
Duration: 1:25 minutes
Music: The Bee Gees: "How deep is your love"
