These days I think a lot about the days that I forgot

Anna Breit (b. 1991 in Vienna) is a photographer whose work is at the interface between documentary, applied and artistic photography. Her working method is characterized by a profound examination of interpersonal relationships, which she captures with a precise eye and great sensitivity.

She often places people from her immediate environment at the center of her works, creating an intimate reflection on closeness, identity and connection. As part of her extensive exhibition at the Francisco Carolinum, Anna Breit presents a multi-layered photographic work that can be read as a portrait of three women and generations: her grandmother, her mother and herself.

Starting from her own childhood, the artist explores the conscious creation and reflection of memories. Using photography, she creates new moments with her mother that are not only lived, but preserved as images seemingly for eternity.

A particular focus is on gestures and textiles - these play a central role in her family. Textiles can be found in the life of both her grandmother and her mother, who worked as a seamstress and made clothes in her own workshop.

In These days I think a lot about the days that I forgot, Anna Breit combines archive photos from family albums with newly created, analogue images, blurring the boundaries between past and present. Her work becomes a touching photographic love letter to her mother and grandmother, raising questions about transience, mortality and the meaning of memories. The result is an intimate homage in which present and past, archive material and new photographs are inextricably intertwined - a poetic echo that resonates both in the lived moment and in the images.