VIOLETA CAPOVSKA
Mothers' Group, 2000
Video, VHS, 2 tapes, 30 min. and 50 min.

The concept of Mothers' Group is relatively unknown in the Macedonian context. It derived within the Western societies as a result of the lack of family support in general to new mothers in the big cities. The young mothers are usually the most lonely and isolated part of these social groups. The idea for this project derived from my personal two-year experience in one of such groups in Melbourne.
Monologues of 8 mothers are recorded from different cultural backgrounds, while they are talking about their motherhood experience. They form two groups connected through two video's.
The first video presents four mothers shot in Skopje: Marjonka (38), Eleonora (33), Dragica (35) and Suzie (31). Each of them speaks Macedonian except Suzie who speaks English.
The second video presents four mothers shot in Melbourne: Julia (37), Veronica (35), Rusalka (33) and Liljana - each of them speaks English except Liljana who speaks Macedonian.