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In her new body of work, titled Walls, Dimitra Dede delves deeply into the themes of motherhood, female identity, and social exclusion, drawing from her book Metaphors and Sylvia Plath’s homonymous poem.

The photographs are accompanied by literary excerpts, including the poem Walls by Constantine P. Cavafy, which echoes a sense of confinement, isolation, and loss of agency.

Through previously unpublished photographs and an intimate gaze, Dede expands the discourse around motherhood not as a romanticized ideal, but as a process of erasure, transformation, and at times, oppression.

Dimitra Dede presents a poetic work that is both a testimony and a denunciation, a memory and a resistance. A powerful reflection on what it means to be a woman, a mother, an artista and on how one survives when the walls close in.