exhibitions
CAR(RY)ING MEMORIES
Nour Sokhon & Joanna Zabielska
02/04 – 10/05/2025
curated by Aline Lenzhofer
Opening: Tuesday, April 01, 2025, 7 pm
with the performance Design of the Anonymous by Joanna Zabielska: April 01, 2025, 7.30 pm
Venue: philomena+ project room, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna
Artist Talk with Nour Sokhon and Joanna Zabielska: April 02, 2025, 8 pm
Venue: philomena+ project room, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna
Sound Performance Beirut Birds by Nour Sokhon: April 02, 2025, 9 pm
Venue: Flucc, Praterstern 5, 1020 Vienna
The residency of Nour Sokhon is a cooperation between philomena+ and kulturen in bewegung.
The exhibition opening and additional event programme is organized in collaboration with Salam Music Festival.
Digital collage of the following works: Kaspar Ravel & Nour Sokhon, Onion is definitely tears; Joanna Zabielska, Design of the Anonymous.
What memories do we carry with us? What do we take with us when we move on? And what do we bring with us when we stay?
The artists Nour Sokhon and Joanna Zabielska address these questions in their project Car(ry)ing Memories and shed light on personal stories of migration and community life. The theme of carrying memories is not only addressed, but is also visually reflected through iconic chequered carrier bags. Memories of gatherings, care and mutual support are often sensually tied to certain flavours, ingredients or dishes.
The exhibition in the philomena+ project space with video, sculpture and installation is the first encounter between Nour Sokhon and Joanna Zabielska. It is an invitation to discover multifaceted narratives and to indulge in emotionally charged memories.
artists
NOUR SOKHON
Nour Sokhon is an artist based in Berlin and Beirut. Her creative practice is centered around exploring different methods of working with artistic research including interview material, field recordings and recorded material from an organized site specific intervention. The research is then translated into sound/music compositions, performances, interactive installations and moving image work. In 2014, Nour Sokhon achieved an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from the American University in Dubai, and in 2017 she culminated a large scale project; a documentary entitled ‘People on Sound’, as part of her Master’s degree in Sound for the Moving Image at the Glasgow School of Art in the UK. In 2019, Nour received the Emerging Artist Prize at the Sursock Museum in Lebanon, for a moving image piece entitled ‘Revisiting: Hold Your Breath’. in 2024 she released her first album ‘Beirut Birds’.
JOANNA ZABIELSKA
Joanna Zabielska (born in Warsaw, lives in Vienna) works at the intersection of art, design, architecture and city planning. Using a variety of media - from VR installations to inflatable sculptures to performances - she develops participatory, site-specific projects with the local community. After graduating in Spatial Planning at the Vienna University of Technology and in Social Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, she expanded her digital skills at Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the Tokyo University of Arts.
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