Long Days, Short Weeks

Luca Markó’s photo exhibition Long Days, Short Weeks puts on display the formative first three years of motherhood. Following the months of pregnancy filled with anxiety and expectations, new ways of co-habitation emerge, disrupting the balance of inside and outside, day and night. Deepened by the isolation of the pandemic, the artist experienced a double quarantine in which she had to learn again how to operate in her everyday life. Who am I if I have to give up, at least temporarily, all the activities that helped me define myself? How does it feel never to be alone, not even in the bathroom? How can I re-discover and recreate myself in the confined spaces of life?

Those who are cornered in an apartment start to see familiar things from a fresh perspective. Luca Markó’s photos, following a stream of consciousness, establish a ‘mother gaze’ and focus on the ever-changing and tabooed details of this closed environment. New bodily experiences and emotional waves, social expectations and changing relationship dynamics. Dissolution in the all-encompassing role of a mother, windows, light spots, imprints and wrinkles from a time of losing control. The 35mm photos mix diary excerpts with pre-arranged and re-enacted scenes and object compositions.