2025
ARCO Lisboa
Doing Splits describes the balancing act we are often forced to perform in everyday life – between care work and adapting to the norms and expectations shaped by social media and our beauty culture. This series of works makes this balancing act visible by placing intimate close-ups of everyday snapshots alongside more distant views. Source material from advertising and social networks, which generate ideals and role models, is combined here with private photographs that convey a relatable reality.
The split-screen aesthetic points to the fragmented visual world of our digital present. Private and public scenes appear side by side, like on a desktop, where closeness and distance, intimacy and idealization overlap. At the same time, this digital logic is interrupted: the works are created through a slow, tangible, handcrafted process with textiles – a medium that inherently carries time, patience, and touch.
An additional layer comes from children’s drawings, translated into textile cords and woven into the image surfaces. They connect the everyday life of a mother with collective experiences of care, overwhelm, and social expectations.
The result is works that speak of simultaneity: of intimacy and voyeurism, of digital overwhelm and the slowing down of craft, of the tensions between the private sphere and the expectations imposed from the outside.