Image above: «The shape of your life», 2022. Found adult and baby clothes and collage on paper.

In November 2022 I visited my elder sister’s house but she wasn’t there anymore. Only her clothes and personal objects remained in boxes. Her son let me organise most of her possessions and some went to the charity. One morning, after I was watching a tree she loved, I started putting out some of her treasures on the floor of the loft. They were baby clothes she wrapped with silk and tissue paper, little shoes and dresses she wore several times on special occasions. I washed them with Marseille soap and hung them in the tree. By doing all this I realised that since the beginning my actions were a kind of performance with no audiences and that was me paying homage to my sister. The act ended with an installation that resembled a tree. As the author Elif Shafak suggests, «arborescent structures with entangled roots and individual branches appeared at awkward angles». Two years after, I realised that perhaps I was expressing through this active installation old family traumas and healing something that I was unable to cure while she was alive.