Installation No. 46 (Rhythmus 24)

The Haggerty Museum of Art presents “Installation No. 46 (Rhythmus 24)”, 2025, a new site-specific commissioned work by Chicago-based artist Jan Tichy. Using multiple synchronized video monitors, the installation explores the temporal and spatial dynamics of light and the interplay between natural and artificial illumination. Moving light—referencing contemporary urban and natural rhythms, including traffic systems, celestial bodies, circadian clocks, and fireflies—creates a layered meditation on time, technology, and embodiment. The work reconsiders historical notions of production and reproduction in the digital age and invites viewers to enter a space where light becomes rhythm, and rhythm becomes a form of seeing.    

Born in Prague, Jan Tichy moved to Israel in the mid-1990s, where he studied at Musrara School of Photography in Jerusalem, followed by advanced studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Tel Aviv. In 2007, Tichy moved to Chicago, where he earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he is now full professor in the Departments of Photography and Art & Technology/Sound Practices. He has exhibited at Kunsthalle Prague and the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv among many others. Closer to home, his work has been shown at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. His work is included in museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.