Hearth Pieces (2001)and other related portraits
![<p>Peggy and her people (2001), cut out photographs , variable dimensions</p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2001_7.jpg)
![<p>Peggy and her people_2001, variable dimensions, cut out photographs </p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/peggy_2.jpg)
![<p>Doris crying (detail of Paggy and her people)_2001, 120×180, cut-out photograh</p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/doris-crying.jpg)
![<p>Tia Pochola and Annie talking_2001, 120×184,5 cm, cut out photograph</p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2001_5.jpg)
![<p>Nonna Laura_2001, 70×110 cm, cut out photograph </p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2001_9.jpg)
![<p>Lala and Zoo_2001, 120×180 cm, cut-out photograph</p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/lala_and_zoo.jpg)
![<p>Ingaborg_2001, 60×40 cm, cut out photographs</p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2001_10.jpg)
![<p>Dennis running and Tia Charo and the children_2001, 120×180 cm, cut-out photograph</p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Dennis-running-and-Tia-Charo-and-the-children.jpg)
Finely cutout portraits of a family surround a ghostly figure in a conjuring or scéance-like scenario. The central figure, the artist's great grandmother, floats queen-like in the centre of the room while the surrounding portraits create a horizon around her and mark the edges of memory.
As with all Cardelús photo-based work, family snapshots are reworked materially in order to pierce their opaque and inaccessible surfaces to release and share the intensity of subjectivity experience.