Flavia Pinto | Why Would You Choose It?, 2023

Monotype

34.5 x 26 cm

Unique Work

Framed

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This body of work was born out of Flavia’s need to record and make sense of the complexity of her experience as a mother: a search for love, freedom and limits in a context thick with unprocessed emotions and overtired minds. Flavia’s images question the Mother archetype as an all-giving, perfect being, embracing instead Her longing, desires, and often melancholy. Through the making of images, the artist wants to bring visibility to the biter-sweetness of parenting, while simultaneously acknowledging the magical and transformational potential of that journey. Flavia chose to work with monotypes in this series because they allow for a very spontaneous handling of the paint before printing - yet there is very little room for corrections afterwards. To make images in that way doesn’t only fit in relatively small time frames, but it feels emotional, vulnerable and unforgiving – akin to Flavia’s experience of mothering.