Maha Maamoun
, 2009
, 62 min
Relying exclusively on footage from Egyptian films that use the pyramids as backdrop, Domestic Tourism II explores the ways in which these iconic historical monuments can be re-appropriated from the “timelessness” of the tourist postcard and reinscribed by the political, social, and historical complexity of their urban landscape.
, 2008
, 1 min
Most Fabulous Place flips through postcards of Egypt’s main tourist attraction, the Pyramids of Giza, alongside a soundtrack of conversations from various Egyptian films that occur next to these iconic monuments.
April 2022
Yto Barrada, Malak Helmy, Lara Baladi, Marianne Fahmy, Maha Maamoun, Setareh Shahbazi
Monuments & Flowers Curated by Regine Basha Monuments & Flowers brings together a selection of seminal video work by women artists culled from the archives of ArteEast with the work of contemporary voices including Yto Barrada, Lara Baladi, Marianne Fahmy, Malak Helmy Maha Maamoun and Setareh Shahbazi with Mirene Arsanios. How do we reflect upon…