GOMO SIGNE

Gomo Signe explores care, invisible labour, ageing, and inheritance through the life of my grandmother, whom I am named after.

Like many women of her generation, Gomo has spent her life working without pay, caring for her family and maintaining a home. Her labour has been essential, yet largely unseen and unrecognised.

Through photographs of her body, hands, home, and everyday routines, I explore how a lifetime of care and experience leaves its mark — not only on the body, but across generations. As her granddaughter and namesake, I am interested in what we inherit beyond a name: gestures, values, expectations, and ways of caring for others.

Rooted in a place she has called home for most of her life, the project also reflects on time, belonging, and the gradual disappearance of traditional ways of living. Gomo Signe is both a personal inquiry into where I come from and an attempt to make visible the quiet labour that holds families and lives together.

The project is still ongoing.