Lost referents of some attraction
Subtitle: Malak Helmy
By: [Kaya Behkalam, Anneka Lenssen (ed.)]
Contributors: Behkalam, Kaya, 1978-; Lenssen, Anneka; American University in Cairo. Sharjah Art Gallery
Series: AUC_LAB Notes on Practice -- v. 1; AUC_LAB Notes on Practice -- v. 1.
Publisher: Revolver Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9783957632388
Subjects: Exhibitions; Egyptian Art; Art and literature
Description: In Malak Helmy's videos, sculptures and text pieces we encounter a strange and poetic world of material desire and contagious transformations. A pixel dreams of becoming a particle of dust, carbon wants to be diamond, and states of excitement move infectiously from mannequins to edifices, to humans, to images. This book brings together writings and images to explore Helmy's work - its "mutations of empathetic exchange" meandering bet- ween presence and absence, text and image, index and event.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Sharjah Art Gallery of the American University in Cairo, March 31-April 26, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.