Lila ZOTOU

The photo series SuperNova, borrows its title from the various types of explosions that occur at the end of a star’s life in which they produce extremely bright objects, but whose initial luminosity fades away within time.

It consists of images which I took between 2015-2020 in the aftermath of several artificial fertilisation treatments. A process towards a trip to extending family. It is a visual diary where I observe time, death, personal emotions and persistences that occurred on different stages of those efforts.

The work is not focused on the medical process of the treatment per se, neither is in line with submerged moments of drama. It is a result of long camera walks that took place when I was feeling the need to look for some quietness and peaceful moments in the woods, to hear nature and feel myself in it or to release despair and even grief, as a result from those failure attempts to extend family through science.