Aempatia joins the Curated Program with a trilogy of works that trace the emotional architectures of motherhood as memory, ritual, and inheritance.
Aempatia
Each piece unravels the archetype of the maternal as both refuge and devourer, revealing how care and dependence entwine within the unconscious fabric of the family.
Through analog photography reworked digitally, Aempatia constructs intimate thresholds where affection and control coexist, translating tenderness into a site of psychological tension.
The series transforms domestic gesture into myth, turning private emotion into a collective reflection on attachment, trauma, and memory.
I DON’T LIKE ADVENTURE
Suspended between fear and familiarity, this work portrays the maternal bond as an act of cautious intimacy.
The daughter’s presence becomes both extension and reflection of the mother, a mirrored gesture of inherited emotion.
Through muted tones and subtle distortion, the image captures a fragile equilibrium between comfort and constraint, a portrait of protection that conceals quiet resistance.
WE BUILT SOME SAFE PLACES
In this piece, safety unfolds as an illusion built from repetition.
The mirrored posture between mother and child evokes the architectural logic of care, spaces constructed to protect, yet destined to absorb.
The work unfolds as a visual mantra, where gesture becomes a ritual of containment, and devotion shades into possession.
REFUGE, DEVOUR
This final work distills the emotional essence of the series.
Film grain and digital manipulation merge to expose the fragile line between affection and consumption.
The maternal figure emerges as both shelter and vortex, embodying the cyclical rhythm of love that gives and takes simultaneously.
Each repetition becomes an act of remembrance, where the past returns not as nostalgia but as encoded inheritance.
Aempatia’s practice moves between photography, editorial work, and poetic research, creating emotional architectures where intimacy becomes material.
Active within the web3 ecosystem, they explore how images preserve desire and inherited trauma, reimagining memory as a mutable field of transmission.
Their work is a meditation on attachment: a way of thinking through images, of translating affection into structure, and of revealing the silent continuity between care and wound.
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