The series "Family Meetings" (2013–ongoing) explores familial relationships and belonging in terms of cultural identity, its ambiguity, fractuality, and fluidity over a timespan of more than a decade. The work began with a longing to locate myself within a family construct while identity felt porous, fractal, and constantly in motion. I returned to a family constellation in which closeness and distance coexisted. Some relatives were familiar only through childhood fragments; others felt like I had never left their side. In that tension, my role kept shifting: guest and family member, newcomer and kin, granddaughter, niece, cousin, visitor.
Naa Teki Martey Lebar
Naa Teki Martey Lebar (*1989) is a visual artist and author. She studied Fine Arts and Photography in Great Britain, Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Austrian Studies at the University of Vienna. Her work explores themes of belonging and identity shaped by living across multiple cultures, often reflecting on the gaze in and beyond the photographic medium through personal narratives. Working with photography, text, and installation, Lebar creates spaces for reflection, narration, and care where experience becomes both material and method.
