workshop

DON'T SKIP!

by Farah Barakat & Anna Khodorkovskaya

Friday, 14/11/2025, 5 pm
Venue: philomena+, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna
Please register for the workshop by 10/11/2025: info@philomena.plus

Farah Barakat, 2025

The artists invite you to take a closer look at images from the news that constantly confront us. By using the technique of mono printing with ink on newspaper, participants are invited to highlight overlooked details or focus on specific fragments—encouraging new ways of seeing and reflecting on the visual narratives that shape our understanding.

artists

FARAH BARAKAT

(*1996 in Alexandria, lives and works in Cairo) is a painter and mixed media artist. Since completing her BA in Visual Arts from The American University in Cairo in 2018 she has exhibited her work in group exhibitions at numerous Cairo venues including Darb1718, Sharjah Art Gallery, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Soma Gallery, Tahrir Cultural Center, and Art d’Egypte. Her work was also included in the London showcase of the King Tut Collective with the Egyptian Culture Bureau. Farah Barakat reflects on subtle aspects of the human experience. In her exploration of self, surroundings, and human dynamics she conjures up an alternative reality, which reflects in her experimental handling of mediums. Her intuitive approach to painting combines with manipulating and distorting raw materials such as unprimed fabrics, different types of clay, cement and gypsum. The process of layering is an invitation to look beneath the surface and ponder distorted narratives that challenge the ‘truth’ of memory and its elusive nature. The interconnectedness of memory and identity is a central theme in her work which ponders the interplay of gain, loss, choice, and transformation over time that shapes identities in the contemporary world.

ANNA KHODORKOVSKAYA

(*1985 in Moscow, lives and works in Vienna) studied printmaking at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts from 2003-2008 and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 2011-2018. In 2014 she received the prestigious Strabag International Art Award, in 2018 the Recognition Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts for her diploma and in 2021 she won the Prize of the Province of Carinthia at the 37th Austrian Printmaking Competition. She has been invited to numerous residency programmes, exhibits nationally and internationally and implements projects in public spaces. Her main media are mosaic, painting, drawing and watercolour. However, the artist also works witu installations, participatory projects and in various artist collectives. Her works are exhibited internationally, performed and installed in public spaces.

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