The Mama-Mas’ project was a large scale public photographic installation exhibition that utilised masquerade aesthetics. I collaborated with Cardiff-based photographer Catriona Abuneke to gather a series of conversations and re-presentations based around experiences of motherhood.
This specific project used household materials and elements that were specific to the individual mother and her circumstance, in order to re-present a mas’.
Mas(querade) aesthetics is concerned with portrayals such as those that are manifested in the Trinidad Jouvay and Ole mas’ with the use of home-made costumes, mud, molasses, paint, talcum powder, signs and writing. I am also interested in the continuation of the ‘home-made’ in Jacmel kanaval (Haiti) depicted in Leah Gordon’s photographic work as well as her documentation of the revellers’ oral histories which reveal that their masquerade can sometimes derive from dreams, visions and personal stories.
See project blog here.
