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Golden Pixel Talks: Can Images Grieve? Sharing a Philosophy of Praxis
The Role of Language, Oral History, Time, Erasure, Tracing Absences, Fact versus Fiction, Secrets, and Museums
With Noor Abuarafeh, Huda Takriti, and Lina Ramadan
Language: English
Duration: 59 minutes
Host and editor for this edition: Nathalie Koger
Sound design: Vinzenz Schwab
Concept GPC Talks: Mona Schwitzer
How can artists engage with gaps in historiography and archives? What methods and media form the foundation for an active practice of remembering and bearing witness? And how can the process of “re-remembering” be shaped by cultural practitioners?
Taking their joint exhibition project as a starting point, artists Noor Abuarafeh and Huda Takriti, along with curator Lina Ramadan, reflect on their practices in the fourth edition of the Golden Pixel Talks. They approach their work as a form of anti-colonial dialogue with existing—or absent—historical images, objects, and narratives. By interweaving key concepts, they develop a philosophy of their own practice.
#Noor Abuarafeh (b. 1986, based between Jerusalem and Rotterdam) Her practice spans video, performance, publications, and video installations, with a focus on the themes of memory, history, archives, and the complexities of tracing absence. Through her text-based videos and performances, Abuarafeh’s works questions how history is shaped, constructed, perceived, visualized, and understood—and examines the intersections between fact and fiction as well as imagination in the construction of historical narratives.
#Huda Takriti (b. 1990 in Syria, lives in Vienna) superimposes personal and national narratives in her video works and her image-text or text-text collages, aiming to spotlight gaps in historical and national memory.
She is currently pursuing a PhD-in-Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where she is examining the notion of archival erasure relating to the (hi)stories of female freedom fighters from the Middle East in times of armed anti-colonial struggle. She questions the construction and production of historical narratives, and explores the potential of“contamination” as a way for bridging archival gaps. She completed her master's studies at the TransArts department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2020. She also completed her bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus, Syria, in 2012.
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#Lina Ramadan is a curator and writer specializing in contemporary and modern art, currently based in Vienna. Her research focuses on post-colonial perspectives on the MENA region, female artists, and solidarities. From 2016 to 2022, she served as curator at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha. Lina Ramadan is the editor of the coming book Madness of the Anthropocene: Thinking with an Image (Kaph & 421, 2024). Ramadan is the recipient of the 2024-25 Darat al Funun Fellowship and is currently pursuing a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
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Documentation of the recording setup
© Huda Takriti, 2025
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