An audiovisual installation as part of the parallel events programme of the 67th Thessaloniki Film Festival
Opening: Saturday, 7 November 2026, 18:00
HU/هُوَ is an installation conceived by Oliver Laxe for the Museo Reina Sofía and presented for the first time outside Spain, configured for the space of the MOMUS-Experimental Center for the Arts in dialogue with the tribute “Welcome to the Desert,” featuring films selected by the Galician filmmaker. The work is anchored in the creative process, research and recordings that culminated in Sirāt, winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2025. In the Islamic tradition, sirāt is the bridge that crosses hell towards paradise, an image of spiritual transit; HU/هُوَ, “He,” is regarded as the first sonic manifestation of the deity, a divine breath that gives rise to creation. The installation guides us into a spiritual universe where the search for transcendence begins with the dancing, remembering body and with the appearance of the sacred within the natural, architectural and sonic landscape. Immanence, all that is here, material and mundane, becomes a vehicle towards transcendence. The result is a physical, sensorial and synaesthetic experience that gestures towards a re-enchantment of the world.
HU/هُوَ, audiovisual installation, 2025, speaker stack, multi-channel 16mm projection transferred to digital, color and sound, 18΄
Direction: Oliver Laxe
Production: Xavi Font, Music Kangding Ray
Cinematography: Mauro Herce, Oliver Laxe
Editing: Cristóbal Fernández
Post-production: Pablo Lamosa, CUBE
Conceived by: Oliver Laxe
Sound design: Kangding Ray
Organised by: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía & Thessaloniki Film Festival
Curated by: Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga, Chema González [In dialogue with the tribute “Welcome to the Desert” curated by Orestis Andreadakis]
General coordination: Xavi Font, Alexandros Diakosavvas
Exhibition design: Irini-Dafni Sapka
Opening days & hours: 6-15 November 2026, 10:00-22:00. Free admission.
Plus events
Special tours-presentations of the exhibition by the filmmaker Oliver Laxe, and the co-curator Chema González. Free admission.
Σάββατο 7 Νοεμβρίου, 18:00 Oliver Laxe
Τρίτη 10 Νοεμβρίου, 18:00 Oliver Laxe
Πέμπτη 12 Νοεμβρίου, 18:00 Chema González
More info, here https://filmfestival.gr/en/tiff/parallel-events-tiff67/ek8eseis-egkatastaseis/kalws-hr8ate-sthn-erhmo-iii-huho/
