Hiraeth

Julia Wrzesinska, currently based in Cornwall is a commercial photographer, who’s private practice focuses on exploring and examining the underlining lies of the family archive alongside with psychological manipulation. Thereby, through analysing the falsified reality of the mundane and the domestic, her work is immediately grouped into common subsets of memory such as the time, place and personal identity.

“Hiraeth” is the Welsh translation for “Longing for a home that no longer exists or never was”.

Thereby, as inspired by my family archive, I examine my Polish heritage alongside my own personal identity through the medium of photography by creating a fictional love story, occupying the past and the present.

 

The docu-fiction is an exploration of the human mind, memory time and space through the eyes of a former World War 2 soldier whose aim is to recall memories prior to the battlefield in order to spend one more treasurable and tangible moment with his beloved wife who was unfortunately killed during the war.

 

Therefore, through the use of the human senses such as touch, smell, sight to physical photographs, the work intends to trigger the thinking process to recall any experiences prior to the event which traumatised the mind to the extent of erasing all types of memory. Overall, evaluating- nostalgia, the domestic, personal identity and the human mind as clearly displayed by the series.

 

Framed Photographic Fine Art Print on Lustre Paper

32x45cm

Framed