AURéLIE SORRIAUX
In Search of my Curls

The work is about the heritage and the question of ourselves. A research into what is passed on in the family, what remains from our origin and how to identify with it. Being the only one in my family to have curly hair, I started to question my identity.

I investigated my family archives and the memories of my relatives to find answers, someone to relate even more and thus strengthen my identity. My project relates to an unsuccessful research. By exploring the most direct ancestral links, I did not find the answers I was looking for. The work is a collection of different areas of research, non-exclusive.

I wrote a list of questions I would have liked to ask to my ancestors and then give them to my parents. The questions are an attempt to be close to my ancestors, what would they had pass on me? Obviously, this isn’t true. What is veridical is that the transmission is done by close relatives and that is often the only source of knowledge, the rest is in the imagination.

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