In my mother’s dimple (2024)

”In my mother’s dimple” is a short, filmed performance which explores the potential for separate metaphorical archives held within the bodies of a mother and child, recording something of the other and reflected in their face, mind and actions. It examines what such an archive could contain and how each might use it as both a holding place and a site of exploration for their individual identities.

As part of the auto-theoretical tradition, this film considers the theories of Jerome Bruner on the formation of the self, of Roszika Parker on maternal ambivalence, Lucy Jones on Matrescence and Astrida Neimainis on hydrofeminism. How are these theories lived through the bodies of a mother and child, and what might they tell us about how we understand ourselves through the gaze of those we love? This film is positioned at the intersection between academic theory, filmmaking, visual contemporary art, memoir, and the body as material.

“In my mother’s dimple” won the Homiens Art Prize in January 2024.