HIDROMYTHOLOGIES
In Hydromythologies, I draw upon this continuity to examine how the narratives that have historically intertwined women and water continue to shape our experience of the present. I have never regarded myths as stories confined to the past. Rather, they continue to circulate among us, informing gestures, beliefs, and modes of imagining, inhabiting, and exercising power over bodies and territories, while profoundly shaping our relationships with nature and femininity.
Female figures, fish, boats, sails, lace, and porcelain recur as vestiges of diverse traditions, spanning mythology, religious practices, familial memory, and vernacular knowledge. The series assembles fragments drawn from multiple cultural traditions. Removed from their original contexts, these elements are reconfigured into new visual constellations where past and present remain in continuous dialogue.
Informed by the principles of hydrofeminism, the series approaches water not merely as a natural element, but as a medium of memory, relationality, and transformation. By revisiting these imaginaries, the works investigate how religious mythologies continue to inform our understanding of the feminine, of nature, and of practices of care, revealing how narratives that have long associated women with water remain embedded within the social, political, and affective structures of the present. I am interested in understanding how this association has been constructed, reinterpreted, and appropriated throughout history, at times as a source of agency and at others as an instrument of domination.
In this sense, myths continue to shape affective life, prescribe social roles, and influence the ways we conceive of care, nature, and the feminine. I draw upon myth not as a relic of the past, but as a cyclical and enduring structure that allows me to examine how narratives that have perpetuated the association between women and water continue to inform the present.
