Where House Used to Be — Daniel Hojnacki

Install of Where House Used to Be

“Furtive” @ The Chicago Cultural Center | FEB 2- APRIL 2 2018

Daniel Hojnacki’s work reflects a fascination with the subjectivity of human perception and the evolution of memory and reality over time. His series Where House Used To Be retells the story of a house he never knew practicing the construction of a memory he never had. The house in question is on Bear Lake, Florida and was once a home to his great-grandparents. Their memories via photographs are all Hojnacki has to discern and tell the story of a place ambiguous and fictional to him, and ultimately us. But like waking from a dream all we are left with are glimpses and fleeting sensations, the furtive nature of memory laid bare.

-Jennifer Murray