girlhood

Aufgabe

Die Aufgabe bestand darin, ein Fotobuch zum Thema “Beziehungen” zu gestalten.

Konzept

Wir wollten und mit Mädchenfreundschaften auseinandersetzen, wobei wir den Fokus auf den Vergleich zwischen den Freundschaften von Kindern und denen von jugendlichen Erwachsenen legen wollten.

Ergebnis

“When I was a little girl I dreamed of being a grown woman
of talking on my own cellphone to my own friends
and laughing while leaning over my own pot of pasta
like my mom did
of buying my own air fresheners for my own car
and stopping at the gas station to buy my own cigarettes
like my friend‘s older sister did
I dreamed of being this grown woman
a grown woman who does the things that grown women do
feeding her dog replying to her emails
Then I became this grown woman
only to find out that grown women find the holes between
these grown-up acts
to dream of being little girls
that grown women are only paying homage to little girls
So please embrace aging
Remember how free adults seemed when you were a child?
So why do we now view the children as free?
Is freedom an illusion of being in a body that’s just not present?”
– Sarah Gwen