Mia sorella è una quercia is an artistic exploration of the transition into womanhood — a passage shaped by memory, lineage, and shared experience.

Through a multidisciplinary artistic approach, the project investigates both the symbolic and lived dimensions of this transformation, weaving together personal narratives and collective histories from the Spanish village of Enguera. The journey is at once intimate and universal, bringing together voices from different generations to illuminate the layered and evolving nature of feminine identity.

Embracing the fluidity of memory and ritual, the project uncovers gestures, traditions, and silences that mark the threshold between girlhood, womanhood, and elderhood. These fragments form a constellation of experiences that reveal how identity is transmitted, transformed, and reimagined across generations.

At its core, Mia sorella è una quercia is a reflection on sorority — a bond that transcends time and geography. The project seeks to dissolve the boundaries between the private and the collective, the ancestral and the contemporary, creating a space where stories can emerge, resonate, and intertwine.

Through visual and sensory elements, the work invites the audience to engage with the many layers of womanhood, from inherited legacies to the forging of new paths.

Rather than simply documenting a place or a community, Mia sorella è una quercia unfolds as an experience — a narrative that honors the cyclical and transformative nature of becoming women.

The project, curated by Pamela Piscicelli, originates from the encounter between photographer Stephanie Gengotti and the Spanish artistic duo ‘Las Mitocondria’. Alicia Herrero and Maria Angeles Vila, active for over ten years, carry out research projects focused on the roles of women in contemporary society, with an in-depth perspective on traditions and the past, exploring gender dynamics and their evolution over time.