On Creative Practice: Daniel Hojnacki and Pia Singh

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Join artist Daniel Hojnacki in conversation with curator and arts writer Pia Singh, as they discuss Hojnacki’s current installation at 21c Chicago, D (US) T, on view through October 31. D (US) T is a collection of photography-based images that contemplates the temporality of the body and its intrinsic interconnectedness with the cosmic landscape.

Daniel Hojnacki uses experimental techniques in photography to investigate the quietness of being an observer within the world, creating work that explores the importance of materiality in the image-making process. Daniel seeks out ways of recording the movement of the body and natural world, trusting chance happenings within photography to capture the subtle and fleeting textural gestures around us. Daniel received his MFA from the University of New Mexico in 2022 and a BA from Columbia College Chicago in 2011. He is a recipient of the Penumbra Foundation Workspace Artist-In-Residence, LATITUDE Residency, The Patrick Nagatani Photography Scholarship, and The Phyllis Muth Arts Award, among other honors. He has exhibited work at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, University of New Mexico Art Museum, and the Chicago Cultural Center. His work has been featured in Aint-Bad, Pamplemousse Magazine, and Southwest Contemporary Magazine. He currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Pia Singh is an independent curator and art writer from Bombay, IN, living and working in Chicago, IL. Bolstering artistic practices through exhibitions, art criticism, and community organizing, Singh has been curating experimental practices with artist-run spaces, institutional, and commercial galleries for over 15 years. Her research focuses on community-engaged arts practices that lie at the intersection of contemporary art and design, to allow us to consider pedagogical hierarchies within and outside of which artists strive towards systemic change. Singh is published by Sixty Inches from Center, Chicago Reader, Brooklyn Rail, Frieze Magazine, and has been featured in Hyperallergic, Cultured Magazine, Tussle, and ArtIndia.

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