Series “Mother Love”

“I do it only for your own good!”

Every one of us has a mother. However, the happy nuclear family, with the loving and always caring mother, is an invention of 19th century romanticism. This soft-focus ideal created a stereotypical role model for women and cemented power relations to this day.

Mothers who raise their children in this narrow, traditional world of thought find it legitimate and necessary to break their children’s will in order to then shape them according to their own ideas. The psychological influence is not without violence and often leaves lifelong painful scars on the children. My models all struggle with the consequences of “motherly love”, but are united by the desire for love and affection as well as recognition of their personality.

Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, in a rapid social change, centuries-old family structures are also changing. There will always be conflicts with parents, but ultimately we as human beings must decide whether these conflicts separate us and make us unhappy or whether there is a chance to endure the life we ​​have been given with gratitude.