Huda Takriti



  1. On Another Note
  2. Revisitiation. In Three Acts
  3. Clarity is the Closest Wound to the Sun
  4. Notes on/for a Film
  5. Fluid Grounds I
  6. Fluid Grounds II
  7. Against Nostalgia
  8. Refusing to Meet Your Eye
  9. Of Cities and Private Living Rooms
  10. Les Yeux Dans Les Yeux
  11. The Euphoric Nights in Vienna: Here and Elsewhere
  12. Starry Nights
  13. A Storytelling; I only wish I could be there...

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Starry Nights



Starry Nights, Installation view @Afro Asiatisches Institut, Graz, Austria, 2017.


The concept for this body of work consists of an exploration of meanings and interpretations regarding my memory as a child of the live broadcast of the “Shock and Awe” operation in Baghdad in 2003. When we were able to witness such events through our translucent TV glass screens, we became spectators, creating our own impressions about what we were observing.

Conceptually, the starting point of this project was the way I received these images; as a child, what I saw was a sublime romantic vision of something non-understandable happening up in the sky. Furthermore, the sudden appearance of the running text on the screen pulled me out of my dream and into reality.

This clash moment prompts us to question the confrontation point between the dream and reality, focusing on different perceptions of light and sky. The relationship between the text scrolling on the LED signs and the image it's describing is not always clear or explicit. The aim of my search is not only to leave a gap for the possibility of getting lost between some of the poetical suggestions of these texts, but also to question the role that these running texts play in our conception.


IN A WORLD EXACTLY LIKE THIS ONE                 WHERE THE SKY IS AN UNLIMITED CANVAS OF BLACK                 BETWEEN THE SKY AND THE GROUND                 ALL THE STARS HAVE THE SAME FACE                 “I SAW THE COUNTRYSIDE FROM MY WINDOW A LONG TIME BEFORE SUNRISE WITH NOTHING BUT THE MORNING STAR”                 THE FLASHING STARS LIGHTING THE CLOUDS CASTING SHADOWS TOWARDS THE SKY                 “THE GREAT BEAR IS A SPARKLING GREEN AND PINK”                 I WAS THERE…                 THE GROUND WAS SHAKING ONE MOMENT AND QUIETLY RELIEVED THE NEXT.                 THE HEAVENS ARE FULL OF AN IMAGINARY COMBINATION OF YELLOW, RED, AND GREEN DOTS AND BROKEN LINES IN A CONSTANT ASPIRE.                 BRIGHT WHITE FLASHES OF THUNDER GLOWING IN THE DISTANCE                 NOW                 CONFINED WITHIN THE LINES                 AS FAR AS YOUR EYES CAN SEE                 AND A BIT BEYOND                 IT NEVER HAPPENED                 I WAS THERE                 IT NEVER HAPPENED