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Maha Maamoun is an artist, curator, and independent publisher. Her work examines the form, function, and currency of common visual and literary images as an entry point to investigating the cultural fabric that we weave and are woven into. She is a founding board member of the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC), co-founder of the independent publishing platform Kayfa, and member of the curatorial team of Forum Expanded at Berlinale. Maamoun holds a BA in Economics and MA in Middle Eastern History from the American University in Cairo (AUC). Her artistic practice was shown in exhibitions and biennials including: Constructing the world: Art and economy 1919-1939 and 2008-2018 – Kunsthalle Mannheim; Strange Days: Memories of the Future – Store X and New Museum; The Time is Out of Joint – Sharjah Art Foundation; Century of Centuries – SALT; Like Milking a Stone – Rosa Santos Gallery; The Night of Counting the Years – Fridricianum; Here and Elsewhere – New Museum; Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks – Meeting Points 7; Forum Expanded – Berlinale 64; Transmediale; Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear, Tate Modern; 9th Gwangju Biennale; Momentarily Learning from Mega Events, Makan, Amman; Second World: Where is Progress Progressing, Steirischer Herbst; The End of Money, Witte de With; Sharjah Biennial 10; Mapping Subjectivity, MoMA; Live Cinema, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Ground Floor America, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art; The Future of Tradition/The Tradition of Future, Haus Der Kunst. Her curatorial work includes the exhibitions How to reappear: Through the quivering leaves of independent publishing (BAC, Beirut & MMAG, Amman); How to maneuver: Shape-shifting texts and other publishing tactics (Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi); In light of the land and in its shadows (Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht); Assembled in Streams of Synonyms (Sharjah Gallery, Cairo); PhotoCairo3 (CiC & Townhouse, Cairo).