Anna Breit’s Generational Portrait at Francisco Carolinum Museum

Memory is fluid—shifting, fading, and reshaping itself over time. In These Days I Think a Lot About the Days That I Forgot, Anna Breit explores this impermanence through a deeply personal examination of family history. On view at the Francisco Carolinum Museum of Photography and Media Art in Linz, Austria, until the end of July, the exhibition constructs an intricate visual narrative that questions how we remember, reconstruct, and reinterpret the past.

At the heart of the show lies the relationship between three generations of women: Breit’s grandmother, her mother, and herself. Curated by Maria Venzl, These Days I Think a Lot About the Days That I Forgot has been described as “a photographic love letter” to these maternal figures—an intimate meditation on transience, mortality, and the fragile nature of memory. Breit intertwines archival images with new analog photographs, creating a layered dialogue between past and present.

Photography, in Breit’s hands, is not a means of preserving fixed moments but rather a way of engaging with memory as a living, evolving process. The exhibition highlights the selective and subjective nature of recollection—what we cling to, what we lose, and how nostalgia distorts time.

With this body of work, Breit transforms personal history into a shared experience, inviting viewers to reflect on their own fragmented memories. The exhibition reminds us that, much like photographs, our recollections are never static—they shift and take new meaning each time we revisit them.