Revisitation. In Three Acts
Revisitation. In Three Acts, Installation, Digital Collage Prints on Fabric, Various Dimensions, 2024
Revisitation. In Three Acts takes its starting point from Edward Said’s book “Reflections on Exile and Other Essays” and his command of what a personal essay might be. “Re-” as a prefix, occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, is used with the meaning “again” or “again and again” to indicate repetition, or with the meaning “back” or “backward” to indicate withdrawal or backward motion. The artist sees this motion as recurring rehearsals—a way of being with others differently—to act and interact in reciprocity, thus hosting and embodying one another.
The three acts combine imagery from different sources, photos from a photo album that her mother, Souheir Takriti, keeps photos of her mother—Hikmat al-Habbal—which shows her as a teacher and successful textile artist in Kuwait in the 1960s, and stills from interviews with the artist’s mother, all of which appear in the video installation “On Another Note” at different times. In the prints, like in the video, the artist interrupts the connection between what is inside and outside the photographic frame as well as poses the question of how many narratives a photograph can carry within it outside of the frame itself.
Revisitation. In Three Acts; Act one and Act Two, Installation, Digital Collage Prints on Fabric, Various Dimensions, 2024. Installation View@ Kunstraum Lakeside, Photo © Johannes Puch