Thin Bloodline, Elia de Leon

Name: Thin Bloodline, Elia de Leon
Brand: PhotoIreland
Price: 6.00 EUR
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Thin Bloodline (2025), is part of a critique of the performance of familial ties via cultural celebrations in Mexican and Chicano contexts, where the family is expected to play a central role in a person’s everyday life, even if only superficially. This piece uses embroidery to explore material disruption of the family album while conveying themes of family memory, tradition, and detachment, depicting a scene well-known with a family unknown. The image itself is a reprinting of a photograph scanned in America, then home-printed, sewn-through, and re-scanned in Ireland, further emphasizing its literal and figurative distance from its origin.

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Published by PhotoIreland
Edition of 200
Softcover
90 pages
148 x 210 mm