Works
The Cannibal Paradox, 2025
The 18th Istanbul Biennial
“The Cannibal Paradox” uses mythopoetic imagery in which birds, architectural elements, and machines are involved in a metabolic dynamic, a dialogue between hard ornate forms and soft aerodynamic bodies and a dance of death between the breathing, infrastructures, and automation.
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Strange Comforts, 2023
Meilahti Bridge Hospital / HUS, Helsinki, Finland
An art project for the intensive care area Meilahti Bridge Hospital / HUS Helsinki University Hospital.
Seven images focusing on classics of modern Finnish design and public spaces in Helsinki where residents meet. In this series of images, familiar environments and objects guide the observer towards dimensions of time, as the mundane entwines with the cosmic, the geological and the mythical.
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Apparatus and Form, 2022
BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium &
Mucem the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations, Marseille, France
A new work that evolved from an invitation to the Alexandria-born artist Mona Marzouk. The site specific mural in this gallery is an amalgam of forms in past works by the artist, and references to this exhibition. The work is rendered as a museum within the museum. Emulating the language of museological display in the Alexandria: Past Futures exhibition, Marzouk creates a haunting dream-like environment in which she comes up with shapes that are familiar yet entirely foreign all at once.
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BARK, 2018
Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
BARK is a series of paintings forging a connection between minimalism in art and virtual reality technology. BARK builds on a particular strand in previous projects in which the history of objects is studied and their future speculated on to construct images that become unlikely routes to a cultural investigation of the past and future melded into one.
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RENEWAL, 2015 & 2017
Villa Romana, Florence, Italy & NiMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus
Once upon a time, the Medici family ruled over the republic of Florence for many generations. This project takes inspiration from the history of the Medici period bringing it into parallels with the present. The ruthlessness of the Medici's and their hunger for power was insatiable yet their dedication to the advancement of knowledge, art, and science was prolific.
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TRAYVON, 2014
‘AGITATIONISM’, EVA International Biennial, 2014, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland
The project takes the courtroom as its starting point. The past few years of demonstrations and socio-political upheaval have been intense, and the courtroom as a space in these unfolding narratives has been featured extensively in the media as a space for the implementation of justice. But, the rule of law and justice are in many cases at opposite ends of the spectrum.
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The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Energy's ‘Evil’, 2008
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art,
Gateshead, UK
The project emblematically tackles issues pertaining to energy as the currency of political power and everyday life. With the debates about energy consumption, waste, pollution and global warming on the rise as never before in history, this work goes beyond the present gridlocked situation and into a humorously fantastical but somewhat sinister zone where fuels, production facilities, animals and even architectural landmarks have become metaphorical fusions.
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The New World, 2006
Sfeir Semler gallery, Beirut, Lebanon, 2007 &
Art In General, NY, USA, 2006
It asks how and why are national flags constructed? How do they relate to our lives on a daily basis and how does one identify and deal with the symbolic power behind the structure of flags. It replaced the original 13 star constellation in the first American flag created by Betty Ross and George Washington with a constellation of new individual entities that attempted to defy the boundaries between history and present day, man-made and natural, biomorphic and geometrical, personal and political, beautiful and ugly and finally gender as a predefined entity.
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Helmets, 2005
PROGR (Zentrum für Kulturproduktion), Bern, Switzerland
A series paintings and mural (Murals) that probed into the History of the Helmet as a structure with its many different manifestations in the battlefields of war and sports, as well as space technology and science-fiction.
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The Morphologist & the Architect, 2004
This series of paintings represents an attempt to enter areas of historical association previously unvisited. Instead of depending solely on architectural elements borrowed from different historical eras, in this series I turn to the world of fabulous and mythical creatures for inspiration.
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