HANNAH ALTMAN

By engaging with imagery for nearly a decade together, my mother and I have been building Indoor Voices around intergenerational womanhood, matrilineal responsibility, and mundane intimacy. Through this work, we explore gesture and posing in an environment that straddles imaginary and documentary. Scenes are performed in our frequented interior spaces as we generate reactions to our lives outside of the frame. These stagings allow us to explore what we conceal from each other and the camera, how our bodies shape our language, and how our domestic environment can become a backdrop. Within every image, and in the relationships between images throughout the series, there are structures and collapses, strengths and ruins, truth and fiction. With this constant assembling and revising, our memory builds in front of us as we photograph it.