Collection

100 Found Objects includes images, videos and research material that Ahmed Mater has collected which chronicle Makkah’s past to its present identity.

In 13 Essential Rules for Understanding the World, a list of numbered guidelines seem to be narrated by tulips with faces drawn on their petals.

The screen prints are long, totemic wall hangings taken from the output of an Atari 2600 games console, that had been manually, physically modified by the artists.

The screen prints are long, totemic wall hangings taken from the output of an Atari 2600 games console, that had been manually, physically modified by the artists.

A Monument for the Living is a replica of a highrise in downtown Beirut that was never completed and only served as a strategic military location during the Lebanese civil war.

Marwan Rechmaoui has meticulously sculpted a flattened floor map of Beirut in the form of a puzzle composed of 60 thick rubber pieces that correspond to the city’s 60 distinct quarters.

This project proposes possible reconciliations between the task of the archaeologist and that of the poet, between modern images and ancient texts.

The video brings us closer to actions that are usually heard but not seen, revealing a performance in contrast to its religious connotations: the bell ringers’ violent, abrupt, repetitive and physically dangerous efforts seem almost like a pagan ritual carried out in a trance.

Four directional loudspeakers are placed on the walls, each loudspeaker plays a percussive pattern repeated at regular intervals, creating different combinations.

Cyprus (2015) is the fourth work in a series ‘Five Distant Memories: The Suitcase, The Room, The Toys, The Boat and Maradona’ (2006-), which the artist describes as an exercise in recovering his earliest memory.

Dictums 10:120 is a multipart project that involves the composition and performance of a qawwali song.

In Domestic Tourism II, Maha Maamoun explores how the ‘timeless’ image of the Egyptian pyramids - projected by the tourism industry - can be challenged by reworking representations of these historic monuments into urban narratives that highlight their complex political, social and historical dimensions.

Echo screens the well-known sequence from El Ard alongside Nasr’s footage of El Ansary. The projections face and echo one another, suggesting that the problems which faced Egyptian society in 1933 and 1969 remain unresolved in 2003.

Enclosed revisits the extraordinary history of a monument located in the heart of Algiers.

This video invites a reevaluation of notions of resistance, survival, will, separation, distance and closeness.