Join us to celebrate the exhibition opening on Thursday, 10 November from 6-8pm at Gertrude Contemporary @gertrudecontemporary.

Gertrude’s annual Gertrude Studios exhibition presents new and recent works produced in the organisation’s 16 studios and celebrates the site as a conduit for dialogue and making. As a collective snapshot of the practices supported within the program, the exhibition offers the opportunity to experience a broad diversity of works from leading arts practitioners in Naarm Melbourne, as well as examine material and conceptual developments in contemporary practice.

The exhibition is conceived across the year by the Gertrude Studio Artists and the Curator in Residence @tim.riley.walsh providing a chance for the Studio Artists to experiment with divergent ideas or reflect on recent productions in new configurations, all in conversation with the work of fellow practitioners. The exhibition features work from each of Gertrude’s seventeen current Studio Artists, displayed across all of the galleries at Preston South.

Image: Catherine Bell, Sensory Archaeology #2 (Mother’s Archive) (detail), 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Sutton Gallery.

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Tomorrow is the last day of our exhibition – Abutting Afar -. Part of KAISERSLAUTERN Foro-Fest.
I’ll be there afternoon from 16:00 Uhr.
You are more than welcome.
Kunstlager22
@fotofestkaiserslautern #kwg #kaiserslautern #art #visualart #exhibition #festival #germany #artscene #hamdyreda #curating #photography #culture

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EZZ MONEM⁠
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‘Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed’ explores the tension between reverence and the profane by creating a manifold portrait of Mohamed appropriated from Egyptian cinema.⁠
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Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed⁠
until Sat 27 Aug⁠
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Blindside ARI⁠
The Nicholas Building⁠
Room 14, Level 7, 37 Swanston Street⁠
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Ezz Monem, In search of Mohamed: archive of opening credits, 2021. 35mm slides, Kodak Ektapro slide projectors⁠
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#ezzmonem #thisisnofantasy @ezzmonem @blindside_ari

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Opening 6pm-8pm, Thur 11 Aug
Ezz Monem @ezzmonem ‘Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed’.
All welcome!
On view 10 – 27 August 2022. Gallery opening hours Wed-Sat, 12pm-6pm.
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‘Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed’ is a multichannel video, sound, and slide projection work which is part of a larger project using the artist’s first name ‘Mohamed’ as a starting point.
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The project explores the tension between reverence and the profane by creating a manifold portrait of Mohamed appropriated from Egyptian cinema.
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In this iteration, an archive of the name has been built based on specific criteria that involve the use of the name Mohamed, either as a fictional character, a symbolic representation in a religious film, or an actor’s real name displayed in the opening credits.
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The process of copying images and videos has been accompanied by erasure and transformative processes de-contextualizing the different references of the name and highlighting the ghostly boundaries of representation.
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#blindsideARI #ezzmonem #onsite #exhibition

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THIS IS NO FANTASY @this_is_no_fantasy, Naarm/Melbourne, is currently presenting ‘In Search of Mohamed’ by Ezz Monem (@ezzmonem). The artist’s first solo show with the gallery comprises a set of multichannel videos and photography works using his first name ‘Mohamed’ as a starting point for his research.
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“In this long-term project, I try to explore the tension between reverence and the profane by building a photographic and video archive based on specific criteria that involves the use of the name Mohamed, appropriated from films I grew up watching in Egypt, or recent Middle Eastern films I encountered during my research,” says Monem.
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Read more in Diego Ramirez (@diegoismonster)’s feature on Monem in the ‘What Next’ section of Art Collector’s 100th issue.

​‘In Search of Mohamed’ is on view until 21 May at @this_is_no_fantasy, as part of PHOTO 2022 @photofestivalau. Image details in comments.

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Salaam Ezz Monim!

Tune in to Salaam Radio today for a live interview with Ezz Monim! Ezz will be telling us about his exhibition titled In Search of Mohamed on @this_is_no_fantasy gallery until the 22nd of May!
We ll be then plying a selection of modern Arabic music from his motherland Egypt including ambient, Jazz, Mahraganat, Trap and Classical Egyptian music.
Tune in today from 4-5pm to @3crmelbourne 855AM. Stream live and listen back on 3cr.org.au

#Repost @this_is_no_fantasy
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EZZ MONEM⁠
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We’re pleased to present In Search of Mohamed, Monem’s first solo exhibition with THIS IS NO FANTASY for PHOTO 2022. ⁠
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Open today 12 – 5pm.⁠
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In Search of Mohamed is a set of multichannel videos and photography works using the artist’s first name ‘Mohamed’ as a starting point for his research.⁠
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The project explores the tension between reverence and the profane by creating a manifold portrait of Mohamed, appropriated from Egyptian and broader Middle Eastern cinema. Images are collected, viewed, archived and both digitally and manually manipulated to highlight the ghostly boundaries of representation.⁠
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@ezzmonem⁠
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Ezz Monem⁠
In search of Mohamed, 20212⁠
Installation view⁠
Photography: Simon Strong⁠
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#ezzmonem #thisisnofantasy


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EZZ MONEM⁠
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If you’ve picked up the latest issue of Art Collector, you’ll spot Monem in the ‘What Next’ roundup – highlighting what artists should be on collector’s radars. ⁠
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‘Monem uses many strategies to engage with images and see their mechanisms, ranging from rephotographing pictures to appropriating scenes from cinema.’ (Art Collector)⁠
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@artcollectormagazine⁠
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Ezz Monem⁠
In search of Mohamed, 2021⁠
VCA Artspace, Installation view⁠
Photography: ALEC⁠
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#ezzmonem #thisisnofantasy

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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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@ezzmonem @this_is_no_fantasy #EzzMonem #Thisisnofantasy
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Image: Ezz Monem, ‘In search of Mohamed’, 35mm slides, Kodak Ektapro slide projectors, 2021. Courtesy of THIS IS NO FANTASY.