Inherited Terrain - Where the map Changes

This project explores identity as a process that is both inherited and continuously formed. Working with three generations of women in my family—my grandmother, my mother, and myself—I examine how emotional experiences, illness, pain, joy, frustration, and unspoken histories are carried within the body and transmitted across time.
The body is approached as a form of cartography: a living terrain where lived experiences accumulate, settle, and shift. Through photography, collage, embroidery, and textile work, the project constructs layered visual maps that trace how personal and familial histories inhabit the body.
Upcycled garments belonging to the three generations are integrated into the works, introducing material traces shaped by time, touch, and daily life. These textiles merge with photographic and stitched elements, carrying not only memories and emotional imprints but also generational knowledge, skills, and forms of resilience transmitted through families.
Across the installation, inherited patterns appear alongside moments of interruption, where accumulated traces shift direction. Identity emerges through the tension between what is passed down and the many visible and invisible ways each generation responds to it.
The installation consists of three life-scale photographic bodies, each corresponding to one generation and transformed through collage, textiles, and embroidery. Presented together, the works create a spatial encounter where the body becomes a site of memory, negotiation, and transformation.