Anatomy of an oyster

The mother-of-pearl, which will give rise to the pearl, begins to form when a foreign element enters the oyster.

"Anatomy of an oyster" is a journey into the past in an attempt to understand the present. It traces a story of violence, revision and integration: the abuses I suffered at the hands of my stepfather. It is a try to tell what one feels must be told. A way of revealing what could never be expressed to an absent mother. And, at the same time, a way of telling oneself.

In this descent into the depths of remoteness, archive photos and images of emotional and physical memory blend, accompanied by the process of forming the pearls.

The pearl, which is nothing more than the autobiography of an oyster, is the result of this quest to assimilate and finally extirpate.