Reading a Painting
short film (00:10:45) First screened at Het Documentaire Paviljoen, as a part of the program Rehearse Replay Repeat, organized by Jackie Karuti (Amsterdam, July 2024)
In Reading a Painting, artist Meg Huston reads a painting she made in 1990 as a response to the Gulf War, which she witnessed through news coverage from her home in the United States. The single-shot work unfolds Huston's hesitations about the purpose of making art in a time of war, and the implications on the citizens of countries who wage wars, but rarely experience them on their own soils. Meg Huston is my mother, who I collaborate with sometimes.
The title typeface was designed by Meg Huston, and digitized into the typeface MEGBET, which can be downloaded freely to use here.
