The mother

Melanie Manchot

My mother and my mother's mother

Melanie Manchot visited on last weeks guest lecture program and I thoroughly enjoyed watching her talk again. She showed some of her earlier work and I am fascinated about how open she is on her talks. As a contrast to the Otolith Group who's work is currently shown at Fabrica and they seem a lot more reserved and private. 

Manchot showed images that she took of her mother and I remembered hearing Ester Teichman talk about taking nude picture of her mother. I am wondering what those two projects have i common, if anything. What does the mother represent and how can that be shown in photographs? Melanie put her mother in the foreground of sublime landscapes while Esther Teichmann had her mother pose in-front of backdrops. 

Ester Teichmann