THE MENTAL LOAD
The invisible labour of being everything.
In a world that celebrates performance, independence and endless adaptability, women are often expected to carry responsibilities that remain unseen.
The Mental Load confronts two representations of the same condition: a superheroine navigating the ordinary demands of everyday life, and a masked figure whose body gradually yields beneath the pressure of expectation.
Moving between colour and deliberately overexposed black-and-white portraits, the series explores the tension between social performance and private exhaustion.
The overexposure becomes a visual metaphor for burnout: the more the figure is expected to shine, the more her presence begins to fade.
Beyond the question of work, these images examine the invisible cost of care, anticipation and constant availability.
What happens when the ability to do everything becomes the impossibility of simply being?
