“Discourse by Midnight” is a suite of photographs that characterize Dania Hany’s day-to-day practice, where she relies on intuition to guide her through foreign places to find intimacy and familiarity in them. Hany embarks on a personal exploration of how we perceive the spaces that surround us and how we remember them. Taken on 35 mm analog film, the work combines a free exercise of seeing with the deliberate capturing of an image; the frames carry a first-person viewpoint with less than classical crops and glitches from a peripheral vision. Hany weaves herself, her own memories and experiences in and out of the work she produces, projecting emotion onto seamless physical planes.
When working on long-term projects, Hany adopts a research-based methodology, while reserving a poetic approach to the visual and narrative forms. In her most recent ongoing project, Hany traces her family roots that go all the way to the mountains of the Caucasus. A substantial part of the work goes into researching the larger historical narrative during the late 19th century, as well as documenting an inherited oral history within her family. The project also centers around questions of belonging, inherent memory and how trauma can be finely woven and passed down through generations.
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