An Unkindness — Brookline Arts Center

An Unkindness
— Julia Hechtman

On view July 5 — September 30, 2025 at Brookline Arts Center

An Unkindness examines relationships between humans, nature, and image-making, exploring dynamics of permanence and impermanence, movement and stasis, repetition and singularity, and the legibility of landscape through the presence of the human figure or in human memory. Comprising video, photography, and sculpture, the works on display investigate the uses humans make of nature, while gesturing towards nature's survival of the human frame.

The nine videos will run three at a time, changing on the first of each month. Currently on view: ANYONE, Grundarhóll, Untitled (Horse).

Works in Exhibition

Get Lost — 20242:31 min / HD, single-channel video, color, sound

Untitled (Birds) — 20161:45 min / HD, single-channel video, color, sound

Grundarhóll — 20193:06 min / HD, single-channel video, color, sound

Lift — 20163:00 min / HD, single-channel video, color, sound

Apparitions — 20232:15 min / HD, single-channel video, color, sound

Skarðsströnd — 20203:52 min / HD, single-channel video, color, sound

ANYONE — 201618:00 min / HD, single-channel video, color, sound

Untitled (Horse) — 20182:27 min / HD, single-channel video, color, sound

Imslandhus — 20199:12 min / HD, single-channel video, color, sound

Keeping Time — 2025

Archival inkjet prints

Keeping Time — 2025Archival inkjet prints

Keeping Time — 2025Archival inkjet print

Julia Hechtman is a visual artist who lives and works in Boston, USA. Primarily a video maker, Hechtman also uses photography, sound, sculpture and installation in her practice. The natural world features prominently in her works, which has allowed her to travel extensively, and to contemplate the familiar in new ways. Much of her travel has been to the arctic. In 2019 she was a Fulbright Scholar to Iceland as a researcher and teacher. The project she began then, Not Once, was continued in 2023 with an American Scandinavian Foundation grant, an exhibition of the work at The Museum of Photography in Reykjavik. Most recently Not Once has been added to the Video Data Bank’s archive as a collection along with 21 other titles by Hechtman.

www.juliahechtman.com

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