Malak Helmy: Lost Referents of Some Attraction

Malak Helmy: Lost Referents of Some Attraction

April 2014

Sharjah Gallery, The American University in Cairo

This solo show, curated by Beirut for the AUC Sharjah Gallery, presents works from the past five years of Malak Helmy`s practice. Lost Referents of Some Attraction brings together three films, an audio and two text-based works, in addition to a series of objects and spatial interventions. In these works, Helmy sets up environments within environments, presenting altered objects stripped of function as indexical referents within the space. They refer to other sites, studies, research . . . and each other.  

                          [This video was produced by Medrar TV and is featured in partnership with Jadaliyya Culture.]