Meeting Her Again, 2015 – 2017

Wiggins first traveled to the OBRAS Artist Residency in Portugal in 2015. Wiggins was influenced and empowered by the work of Portuguese performance artist Helena Almeida (1934 – 2018), who used her own figure as subject in performative photographs. Wiggins began working with photographer Luís Branco and found a profound connection to the archetypal/mythical feminine in the environments near Evoramonte in the Alentejo region of Portugal. These black-and-white images feature Wiggins sitting in the ruins of a building in a broad landscape, standing on a mountainside, cloaked in black cloth on the castle terrace and lying in a rocky ravine swathed in a black veil. Wiggins and Branco exhibited these works and more in the exhibit titled Meeting Her Again at the Palácio dos Marqueses de Praia e Monforte in Estremoz, Portugal in 2017. Filmmaker Rui Fernandes produced a short video about their work and the exhibition.

(photography by Luís Branco, video by Rui Fernandes)