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EZZ MONEM
PHOTO 2022
opening next week
We’re looking forward to Ezz Monem’s upcoming show ‘In Search of Mohamed’ for @photofestivalau opening next Friday 29 April.
Before then, the gallery will be closed for the long weekend -reopening Tuesday 29 April
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Ezz Monem
In search of Mohamed, 2021
VCA Artspace, Installation view
Photography: ALEC
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PHOTO 2022 artist Ezz Monem (@ezzmonem) is a photo-based artist from Egypt who lives and works in Melbourne. He uses photography to explore the pluralism of reality, playing with sensations of ambivalence and conflict, and giving visual form to the multiplicity of identity in places, people, and objects.
Monem sources images from found photos, fiction films, videos and Google Street View, utilising the mechanical reproduction capabilities of the camera along with various darkroom techniques to transform them into photographic works and imaginary archives. Through the repurposing of images, Monem makes autoethnographic works drawing on his background growing up in Egypt and his experience migrating to Australia.
Ezz Monem
THIS IS NO FANTASY
Fitzroy
29 April – 22 May
Link in bio or visit:
https://photo.org.au/events/ezz-monem
📷 Ezz Monem, The Pyramids Postcards: Following the Policeman #2, 2018/2019 (Detail). Courtesy of the artist and THIS IS NO FANTASY.
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EZZ MONEM
We’re pleased to present Monem’s latest solo exhibition ‘In Search of Mohamed’, opening at THIS IS NO FANTASY this April as a part of PHOTO2022.
‘The project explores the tension between reverence and the profane by creating a manifold portrait of Mohamed appropriated from Egyptian cinema, collected, viewed, archived and both digitally and manually manipulated to highlight the ghostly boundaries of representation.’ (Ezz Monem)
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Ezz Monem
In search of Mohamed, 2021
VCA Artspace, Installation view
#thisisnofantasy #ezzmonem #photo2022
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EZZ MONEM
You can find Monem in the pages of the March/April edition of Vogue Living. Profiled in ‘Fresh Takes’, Monem has been highlighted as one of the most promising young Australian artists, challenging notions of land and heritage.
We’re looking forward to Monem’s first solo exhibition with THIS IS NO FANTASY as a part of Photo2022 this April.
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Ezz Monem
Revolutionary Failure #1, #2, 2021
Archival pigment print, Tasmanian oak frame
29 x 41cm each, Ed of 5 + 2AP
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TONIGHT AT GLASSHOUSE | Exposure Site artist reception | 5 – 7pm
📍 44 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood
Exhibition Dates | 17 February – 5 March 2022
Thursday – Saturday, 12 – 5pm
From the Exposure Site you want to be at. Join us this evening from 5 – 7pm to the group exhibition Exposure Site, welcoming eight new artists who will join the Gertrude Studio Program across 2022.
Functioning as a counterpoint to the annual Gertrude Studios exhibition which looks at works produced during the artists’ time at Gertrude, Exposure Site profiles their practices on their arrival – a prelude to a time of new creative development, expansion, and insight.
@mia.khin.boe @nomadicslowaction @gian_manik @ezzmonem @nina_sanadze @scotty.so @lisa.waup @ittsfrancis
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Supported by @yarracityarts #yarracityarts
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Next at Gertrude Glasshouse | Exposure Site
Artists: Mia Boe, Francis Carmody, Ruth Höflich, Gian Manik, Ezz Monem, Nina Sanadze, Scotty So, and Lisa Waup
📅 Exhibition Dates | 17 February – 5 March 2022
📍 Gertrude Glasshouse | 44 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood
Exposure Site is a group exhibition inaugurating the arrival of eight new artists coming into the Gertrude Studio Program across 2022. The presentation includes a curated selection of recent and new work from the incoming practitioners, surveying their current material or conceptual explorations at a point of shifting presence: both professionally for the artists with the increased visibility and access offered by the program and on a broader level for audiences returning to galleries and cultural spaces after a time of separation.
Functioning as a counterpoint to the annual Gertrude Studios exhibition which looks at works produced during the artists’ time at Gertrude, Exposure Site profiles their practices on their arrival – a prelude to a time of new creative development, expansion, and insight.
Image: Interior image of Gertrude Glasshouse from the Gertrude archive.
[Image description: An empty image of the interior of Gertrude Glasshouse.]
@mia.khin.boe @nomadicslowaction @gian_manik @ezzmonem @nina_sanadze @scotty.so @lisa.waup @ittsfrancis
Supported by @yarracityarts #yarracityarts
Joining the Gertrude Studio residency program.
Installation view for my work at the 2021 VCA Art Grad Show. ‘In search of Mohamed’, multi-channel video and sound, 35mm slides, Kodak Ektapro slide projectors, CRT TVs, bronze. @vca_mcm @this_is_no_fantasy #vca #thisisnofantasy Photo credit: ALEC Open daily until 15 December. Performing Art Theater building (BLD879), Space 28. 30 Dodds street, Southbank.
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EZZ MONEM
Congratulations to Ezz for completing his Masters of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University. You can view his graduation project at the 2021 VCA Art Grad Show until 15 Dec.
2021 VCA Art Grad Show
Performing Art Theatre Building, Space 28
30 Dodds St, Southbank, Melbourne
9-15 Dec
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Ezz Monem, 2021
VCA Art Grad Show
Installation view
#thisisnofantasy #ezzmonem
Photo credit: ALEC
The VCA graduation show is opening tomorrow from 11am to 5pm and will be open daily until 15 December. My masters graduation project is installed in the Performing Art Theater building (BLD879), Space 28. 30 Dodds street, Southbank. You can book a ticket from the link in my bio. Photo by Lisa Radford @vca_art @vca_mcm @this_is_no_fantasy