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PRIVACY STATEMENT
Ana de Almeida & Huda Takriti
(In)verso. Between the Lens and the Archive

Opening
13. 9. 2024, 6 p.m.

Artist’s tour with
Ana de Almeida & Huda Takriti
in the frame of steirischer herbst Partner Program tour
28. 9. 2024, 12:30 p.m.

Duration
14.9. – 17.11.2024

Opening hours
Tue – Sun and bank holidays
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Guided tours
German, English
Free, on request:
exhibitions@camera-austria.at
+43 316 81555016

Idea and concept
Anna Voswinckel

This dual exhibition interweaves parallel strands of two artistic research projects dealing with subjective, image-based approaches to migration and memory in a joint spatial installation.

Taking her cue from the private photo archive of her father, who lived between 1978 and 1987 as a young Portuguese university student in Prague, Ana de Almeida examines contrasting revolutionary phases: the failed Prague Spring of 1968, the Carnation Revolution of1974, and the emerging Velvet Revolution of 1989. The artist transforms historical photos and videos into sculptural display elements that traverse the space like a parcours.

In her central video installation On Another Note (2024)—as in her collages and textile prints—Takriti uses the artistic legacy and photo album of her grandmother, who lived as a teacher and textile artist in Kuwait in the 1960s, to illuminate the region’s transnational entanglements using the example of a family history that was determined by concern about Palestinian statelessness.

Ana de Almeida (b. 1987 in former Czechoslovakia) is an artist from Lisbon (PT), currently living and working in Vienna (AT). She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon, at the Lahti Art Institute (FI), and also at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she is currently pursuing her PhD in philosophy with a scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Recent shows and projects have been presented at Belvedere 21, Vienna (2023), Kunsthalle Wien (2023), Vienna, CAV – Centre for Visual Arts, Coimbra (PT, 2022), and Ústí nad Labem House of Arts (CZ, 2021), to name a few. Ana de Almeida was awarded the Austrian State Grant for Media Arts in 2021 and the BES Revelação Art Prize of the Serralves Foundation for Contemporary Art in 2011.

Huda Takriti (b. 1990 in Syria) is an artist and a researcher based in Vienna (AT). She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus (SY) and at the TransArts department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Currently, she is pursuing her doctorate in the PhD in Practice program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her latest exhibitions include: Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (AT. 2024), Galerie Crone, Vienna (2023), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2020), Afro-Asiatisches Institut Graz (AT, 2017), mumok, Vienna (2022), among others. Most recently, she was awarded the Vordemberge-Gildewart Award (2022), the Kunsthalle Wien Prize (2020), and the Camargo Foundation Fellowship (2023).

Montage from: Huda Takriti, still from: On Another
Note, 2024; Ana de Almeida, from: Between Revolutions
(José Alberto, Prague, 1980 – 1983), 2024.