Opening: Several Attempts for Not Forgetting

Name: Opening: Several Attempts for Not Forgetting
Start: 2025-02-14T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Heinestraße 40, 1020 Wien, Austria

Schedule

Fri, 14 Feb, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Heinestraße 40, 1020 Wien, Austria | Wien, WI

Noor Abuarafeh & Huda Takriti
Opening: Friday, 14/02/2025, 6 pm
Exhibition duration: 15/02 – 28/03/2025
curated by Aline Lenzhofer and Lina Ramadan
In their collaborative exhibition, Noor Abuarafeh (*1986 Jerusalem, lives in Rotterdam) and Huda Takriti (*1990 Damascus, lives in Vienna) explore gaps in historiography, archives, and practices of re-remembrance – themes that are central to the work of both artists. In the philomena+ project space, they present film, photography, and text, alongside a lecture performance. A letter correspondence serves as the starting point for reflecting on the project, modes of collective grief, witnessing, recording, and the ever changing role of archives in truth-making.
The exhibition presents work-in-progress, incorporates text extracts, anecdotes, literary references, videos, and archive photos. Visitors are invited to step into the exhibition as an active space for reflection and to engage with approaches to the artistic reappraisal of history and refusal of the finality imposed on objects and meanings.