This series is the result of three years of work with Nassera Dutour, who leads with great courage the association of families of those who disappeared in Algeria during the conflict in the 1990s.
Together with Laure Greban, a Belgian artist, we tried to portray Nassera's life in her exile in Paris. based on her first-person audio testimonials (part of them reflected in hand writing in this work) and my photography.
Having been born myself in Argentina, I am naturally sensitive to human rights issues, in particular the struggle of mothers and grandmothers to recover their disappeared beloved ones.
This is a story about love and resilience. A mother living alone in the outskirts of Paris, in a poor rundown neighbourhood fighting to get justice for her disappeared son for over twenty years.
A moral example of women's empowerment and resilience against all odds, struggling with little means to overcome cultural and political obstacles.
A woman that has always refused to accept family and Muslim constraints, and also the government's oppression.
She never gives up, she continues her struggle, her life has only one focus: to see her son again and help other Algerian women who have lost their husbands, brothers and sons.