exhibitions
Noor Abuarafeh & Huda Takriti
15/02 – 28/03/2025
curated by Aline Lenzhofer and Lina Ramadan
Opening: Friday, February 14, 2025, 6 pm
with a lecture-performance by Noor Abuarafeh and Huda Takriti
Venue: philomena+ project room, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna
In their collaborative exhibition, Noor Abuarafeh (b. 1986 Jerusalem, lives in Rotterdam) and Huda Takriti (b.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.