This is an ongoing process of documenting my mother. I use the camera as a pretext to redefine maternal intimacy. By depicting her daily rituals, I look into who she is, not only as a mother but as a person. These pictures portray her willingness to reveal herself to me in regards to emotional and physical changes. The work balances just between personal and universal, exposing mother to daughter, daughter to mother and self to self. Through the collection of these photographic portraits, still-lives, and landscapes, an intimate monograph of a mother-daughter relationship is woven together. - Curatorial text by Pietro Daprano: Elise Corten is a young documentary photographer from Belgium who, without any hurry, is developing a body of work from her interest in discovering the changes that happen in people's lives at a physical and emotional level. Documenting the modifications that the human body externalizes throughout its period of life is something that can be objectively represented through photography. However, the challenge that Corten proposes when she refers to emotions, seems to allude to the experience of quantum mechanics of a physical principle. That is, in a way her approach suggests the need to create a circle of trust to foster an empathic environment that allows us to explore those subtleties in the expression of emotions that are not always evident or easy to identify in body expression. From that place, the documentation of what is not evident is a complex and fascinating work that insinuates revisions at the level of facial expressions on the most accepted hypothesis in biology and social sciences of Charles Darwin when he wrote 'The expression of emotions in man and animals', in 1872. On the premises mentioned above, it should be said that Corten, through her ongoing series 'Warmer than the Sun', explores the relationship between her and her mother with the intention of showing us through her photographic dialogues, moments of intimacy and exceptional closeness and connection with her subject.