Villa Argentina

Villa Argentina is a visual exploration of the relationship between the Iranian-born, Swiss photographer Aruna Canevascini and her mother, an Iranian artist who spent her childhood in Tehran as a secluded child, a condition of isolation which she somehow replicates in her adult life. The book represents the family house in the South of Switzerland, Villa Argentina, as a stage for her poetic universe and a backdrop for the poetic arrangements of objects that the author made for the camera. In this creative solitude a deux, this work explores and overlaps issues of domesticity, femininity and migration. Canevascini examines these themes through elaborately-designed images in which the domestic settings she photographs are disrupted by intrusions from both the history of art and her own family past.
AUTHOR: Aruna Canevascini was nominated for the British Journal of Photography Ones to Watch in 2017 and her project Villa Argentina won the 2017 Book Dummy Award, organised by La Fabrica and Photo London. 38 images