Huda Takriti

  1. It Is Always Midnight In Their Minds
  2. Anatomy of an Endless Scene
  3. On Another Note
  4. Revisitation. In Three Acts
  5. Clarity is the Closest Wound to the Sun
  6. Notes on/for a Film
  7. Fluid Grounds (Video)
  8. Fluid Grounds
  9. Against Nostalgia
  10. Refusing to Meet Your Eye
  11. Of Cities and Private Living Rooms
  12. Les Yeux Dans Les Yeux
  13. The Euphoric Nights in Vienna: Here and Elsewhere
  14. Starry Nights
  15. A Storytelling; I only wish I could be there...

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Revisitation. In Three Acts



Revisitation. In Three Acts; Act one. Installation, Digital Collage Prints on Fabric, Various Dimensions, 2024. Installation View at Kunstraum Lakeside, Photo: Johannes Puch

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 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, as in the video, the artist interrupts the connection between what is inside and outside the photographic frame, and poses the question of how many narratives a photograph can carry beyond the frame itself.




Revisitation. In Three Acts; Act one. Installation, Digital Collage Prints on Fabric, Various Dimensions, 2024. Installation View at Kunstraum Lakeside, Photo: Johannes Puch










Revisitation. In Three Acts; Act Two. Digital Collage Prints on Fomei Archival Paper, 118x84 cm, 2024.


Revisitation. In Three Acts; Act one & Act Three, Installation, Digital Collage Prints on Fabric and Wallpaper Various Dimensions, 2024. Installation Vieww at Camera Austria, Graz. Photo: Markus Krottendorfer.