Personal Incantations

Paola Macas Betchart’s practice integrates photography, collage, embroidery,  video, and text to construct multilayered meditations on intimacy, memory, and care. By intervening in her own images, she reclaims them as sites of personal and collective meaning, transforming everyday objects into vessels of reflection.

“Personal Incantations: An Intimate Archive of Scars” examines love, motherhood, and the institutional frameworks that once promised belonging, while foregrounding acts of self-mothering and care for others as pathways of reconnection with body and land. In doing so, the exhibition opens a decolonial space of rootedness and release, where love, displacement, and home are held in generative tension.