CHAPTER 4 – AUNTIES

This series portrays Horsselenberg’s own mother and her mother’s two sisters—women who played a central role in her childhood. With her father often absent due to work, they became her primary role models. Whether their influence was good or bad is not the question; what remains is the understanding that we carry inherited trauma from previous generations—without placing blame. The path forward lies in finding one’s own way, in learning to forgive, and even in finding gratitude for who they are.

Horsselenberg photographs them as if in a dream—imaginative, surreal figures that exist somewhere between reality and fantasy. They appear strange, powerful, and fragile all at once—like echoes from the past shaped by