“Apegos feroces” explores the invisible inheritance of trauma and its impact on the construction of identity. Developed through personal experience and in-depth research into complex trauma, it questions how environment, attachment systems, beliefs, and both personal and systemic experiences leave invisible yet persistent traces that quietly shape us. Through a hybrid language of photography, text, and drawing, the book constructs an intimate atmosphere where images and poems operate as visual echoes.
Tania Barrenetxea is a visual artist with training from Contemporary Photography Center in Bilbao (2020). Her body of work constitutes an ongoing investigation on identity, trauma, and the liminal space where conscious and the unconscious converge. Working from autobiography, she approaches raw vulnerability as a space for connection. Her practice moves across photographic genres, and incorporates other mediums such as illustration or poetry.
