SIENNA NAVA
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She Says My Hair Comes From Her Mother
Sofi Dancing
Age Gap
Don’t Forget We Were Girls First
Toying With Triggers
Don’t Forget We Were Girls First (2025)
This project was made in Cuernavaca, Mexico, with my great-aunt Rocio and cousins Lya and Sofi. Initially, it began as an extension of my project Unfamiliar, but the work has evolved into its own, with an intention to explore the evolving roles women and girls play in each other's lives. Themes of femininity, intimacy and internalisation emerged. Underpinned by memory, which enters the project in many ways; capturing the memory of this moment with my family, referencing the memories I carry of the women in my life and presenting the imagined memories of female experiences I hold a fascination or longing for.
I wanted to depict moments of difficulty being met with empathy; interchangeably between the girls, myself and my aunt. Shared emotional experiences transcending the generational gap. The work seeks to evoke a sense of sensitivity, in women, for our younger selves, for the girls we were. Lya and Sofi remind me so much of my sister and I when we were young, being with them I realised how much of those little girls we forget. The time I spent with my cousins proved to me how much we can learn from girls, and how important it is to remain connected to them. As time with my aunt reminded me to receive care as well as give it, to access my own inner girl. I hope the work incites women to remember and value girlhood, as making it did for me. Ultimately, this project has been a true collaboration between all of four of us so thank you to my beautiful aunt and cousins; Carmen Rocio Nava Rojas, Lya and Sofia Galeano Uribe.
Mirror Image
Playing With Barbies
Still a Girl
Seventy-Four Years
Sofi and Lya Cuddle On My Bed
Her Mother Made This Pot
Lya Looking, Sofi Laughing
My Head In Her Hands
Sofi In Her Favourite Dress
Six
Tia Rocio Wating For Me
Girls In Reality
Saving Space, By Sofi
Us Dancing
Sofi Can’t Help But Smile
Sofi Takes Her Own Portrait Using Her Foot
Nine