Description: Single channel video installation | ambient sound, color, real time | loop 6’57 | 2016
loving. It is slow, it seems long. It is short.
On a special day, I was sitting on my ter- race in Rome, when I noticed the half-moon in a very rare vertical position. It was on the 9th September, by chance my grandmother’s birthday, born in 1900. The sky was still bright, voices of people on the streets suggested a serene late-summer evening.
My mood was that of a woman with a broken heart, while reflecting about her own, lost love.
I was here, that strange half part of the moon was there. I observed the moon’s slow crossing over what seemed to me “my sky”. I saw myself as a little individual in a little place, at a little time, living a little life but with a big sentiment, while I was related to such greater dimensions of distance and time. I started to think about love and time.
In my eyes, that image was dramatically beautiful. It was that, what Love meant for me in this very moment: It is slow, it seems long. It is short. The artistic work, which came out from that experience is the video, I called loving.
Regina Huebner Regina Huebner was born in 1964 in Villach, Austria. She lives in Villach and Rome, Italy. She has two daughters.
She graduated at the Ortweinschule in Graz in Graphic-Design in 1985 and, in 1990, at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome in Sculpture. Recent awards and recognitions include CALLIOPE Join the Dots, outstanding Austrian women in art and science by Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs, in 2024; The Prize of Culture to the City of Villach in 2022; The Decoration of Honour in Gold to her birth town, in 2021. Ambassador of the Independent Republic of Užupis in 2023 and “Person of the Year for Culture”, elected by the lecturers of Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung Carinthia, in 2021. Winner of the competition Monument to Paul Watzlawick, in 2020. Guest Researcher at IMèRA Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University with Percepion of Self and Nonself in Life, in 2019.
She conceives long-term projects, that develop further, over time. Her artworks are interconnected across her whole artwork yet maintaining their independency. Estimation and deep friendships have led to collaborations with personalities from visual art, literature, music, and science, including dialogues and symposia. She involves special key figures, the so-called Protagonists, where the individual destiny is put on a larger scale. Their contributions are constituent of the artwork itself, like in Anonymus dedicated to Vally and in Dear Cell or in still ongoing projects like relationships and reflection and absorption.
She uses different means and media, from experimental photography, video, subjects and objects, environment, sound, to performance, text and programs, including theorization and concept.
Themes and items often have (auto)biographical connotations and treat questions on communication, perception, relation, time, under the perspective of feelings and subjectivity or from the opposite and the contrary. She conceives long-term projects, that develop further, over time. Her artworks are interconnected across her whole lifework of 40 years, yet maintaining their independency.
