​Secrets is a one-night-only exhibition of both, the short film The Secret Lives of Our Parents, and Houses of Secrets, a multi channel photographic exhibition. Secrets asks viewers to question their understanding of truth.

How can the humble landscape photograph mislead the viewer and embellish reality? 

Can a fictional story convey universal emotional truths of love and loss, despite the story not being real?

Secrets places a short narrative film (a work of fiction) and documentary photography (a non-fictional art practice) in conversation with each other to address the importance of context. And in the midst of this dialogue in which the artist reveals uncomfortable truths and the realities of his/his families lived experience, what are the truths that he keeps secret?

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Secrets will be on display Friday November 22, 2024 in the Johnson Center Cinema, on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia.

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Information on how to register for this event coming soon!

 

**Secrets is the culminating work of Andrew Jorgensen's MFA degree and acts as his Thesis Exhibition. Andrew expects to graduate in May 2025.

 

​​ABOUT The Secret Lives of Our Parents

Chuck and Annie, a brother and sister, are left alone one rainy night and decide to play a game.

After the discovery of a dusty old photo album of their parents travels from before they were born, Chuck and Annie begin to fantasize and act out the heroic adventures their parents must have been on when the pictures were taken.

From each photograph we learn Chuck and Annie's parents are not who we thought they were.

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The film is an exploration of the coming of age moment we all have as children when we discover our parents are not the perfect people we think they are.​

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ABOUT Houses of Secrets

Houses of Secrets is a multi channel photographic installation that documents the many places where Andrew and his family have called home for over 3 generations. Projecting these photographs onto furniture covered in white linen sheets, Houses of Secrets recreates the liminal space of an unoccupied residence, whilst retracing the memories left behind and contained within the walls of former places called home.