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People named Mohamed are encountered frequently across the globe, but for Melbourne-based Egyptian artist Ezz Monem, the name has personal resonance: his birth name was Mohamed Ezzeldin M. Abdelmonem. As well as being his first name, Mohamed is also a subject for creative exploration: it is the world’s most popular male name (with an array of spelling variants) and its most famous bearer is, of course, the prophet and founder of Islam.
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Ezz Monem’s ‘In Search of Mohamed’ at This is No Fantasy includes multichannel video and photography works that explore the tensions between “the reverent and the profane”.
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Read the full article by Andrew Stephens via the link in our bio.
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Image: Ezz Monem, ‘In search of Mohamed’, 35mm slides, Kodak Ektapro slide projectors, 2021. Courtesy of THIS IS NO FANTASY.