Six Short Stories
- Publisher
- Inframundo
- Year
- 2018
- Specifications
- Handmade book
6 stapled booklets
13 x 5 x 20.5 cm each
Inkjet and laser printing on 90 gsm bond paper
Soft covers on different papers
This book is composed of six autobiographical stories in the form of six booklets, in a structure similar to the compendiums of short stories commonly found in literature books. It explores the idea that identities are narratives shaped in the same way stories are built. The author combines pictures from her family archive with pictures taken by her and organises them into short stories, in which everyday life is a kind of scenario where past and present mix and the people in the pictures resemble fictional characters who share concerns, voids, fears and vulnerability, no matter where or when they lived. Although the booklets are meant to work as a whole, each has an autonomous meaning, and the text at the end of each is crucial since it questions the images previously seen. The use of the family album is not only a way to explore memory but also an attempt to question how pictures in family albums have been used to standardise and dictate gender behaviours.