#Repost@islamicmuseumaustralia ・・・ OPENING TOMORROW: Discover contemporary art by Raafat Ishak and Ezz Monem, in our brand new exhibition titled ‘The Night of Counting the Tears’. Witness how these two Egyptian-Australian artists combine Islamic traditions with Western art forms, both classical and contemporary, to explore representations of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), the #Kaaba, and everyday life.
The Night of Counting the Tears is on from 28 April until 15 July 2023. Plan your visit via the link in our bio.
#Repost@melbartlibrary ・・・ Join us in the MAL reading room (level 6 of the Nicholas Building) on Saturday 15 April, 3pm-4pm, as MAL’s current Creative Resident Ezz Monem shares insights into his current research and practice.
Since early February, Ezz has been busy trawling through the MAL collection; collecting, making and repurposing images while prodding at ideas of veracity, automation, and alternate archives.
Ezz will talk through this practice-lead research and share new work. This program is supported by the Besen Family Foundation.
Once a year, Gertrude opens our private studios to the public, providing audiences with a special opportunity to explore the Preston spaces, meet the artists, view works in progress and experience the environment in which Gertrude Studio Artists create their work.
Join Gertrude on Saturday 18 February for a day-long program of workshops, studio tours and artist talks. All events are free and no bookings are required.
Gertrude will host a free BBQ from midday. Throughout the afternoon, the public is invited to take part in workshops led by Gertrude Studio Artists, studio tours led by Gertrude’s Artistic Director and Curator in Residence, and an artist talk coinciding with our current artistic program. Each workshop is suitable for children and adults of all ages.
12 – 3:30pm | Visit our 16 onsite artist studios, Artist-led workshops for all ages, Auslan interpreted studio tour
3:30 – 6pm | Welcome to Country & Artist Talk by exhibiting artists Ryan Presley & Hayley Millar Baker in conversation with Hannah Presley, Senior Curator, Museums and Collections at University of Melbourne, followed by an Exhibition Opening Celebration
Image: Visitors attending Gertrude Open Studio Day 2022. Photo: Machiko Abe
[Image description: Two people walk down a timber corridor and peer into a studio door.]
Ezz will be at MAL during February and March, using the collection as a source of research and a jumping-off point for developing a project.
MAL’s Creative Residency Program engages diverse perspectives to prod, unravel, and provoke the foundational underpinnings and offerings of MAL’s collection. As an organisation, we hope to learn from the experiences of the artists we engage with; and welcome critique, intervention, and suggestions for reassembly or altered practice. We want to ensure that artists play a key role in the development of the art library, and are keen to explore the role of libraries as a key resource (tangibly and intangibly) for creative practice.
We look forward to sharing updates on Ezz’s residency!
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Ezz Monem 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 photographs, fiction films, videos and the internet, utilising the mechanical reproduction capabilities of the camera along with various darkroom techniques to transform them into photographic works and alternate archives. Through the repurposing of images, Monem makes autoethnographic works drawing on his background growing up in Egypt and his experience migrating to Australia.
Monem graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University and worked as a software engineer, but his explorations in visual arts began years earlier. His work has been shown in exhibitions in Egypt, Australia and various other countries in Europe and the Middle East where he has received numerous awards. Monem recently completed a Master of Contemporary Art at the VCA, University of Melbourne.
Ezz Monem is represented by THIS IS NO FANTASY gallery, Melbourne.
This program is supported by the Besen Family Foundation.
#Repost@yarracityarts ・・・ Closing soon! Don’t miss your chance to see ‘In Search of Mohamed: Archive of Opening Credits’ by Ezz Monem now on at the Fitzroy Library until Sunday 22 January.
Using the artist’s first name ‘Mohamed’ as a starting point, this exhibition explores the tension between reverence and the profane by creating a manifold portrait of Mohamed appropriated from Egyptian cinema.
Presented as part of the 2022 City of Yarra Exhibition Program.
Location: Fitzroy Library, 128 Moor Street, Fitzroy. See during library opening hours.
Image: Installation view of ‘In search of Mohamed: archive of opening credits’, 2022 by Ezz Monem. Fitzroy Library, 17 November – 22 January 2023. works shown: #2; Abna2 El-Samt (Silence Sons) part 1 and #3; Abna2 El-Samt (Silence Sons) part 2 (2021), archival pigment prints, editions of 5+AP. Image description: Black and red film stills showing side profile portrait of men wearing military helmets. In Arabic, the name Mohamed is written in white text, centre/right on both images.
Repost @yarracityarts ・・・ Using the artist’s first name ‘Mohamed’ as a starting point, this project explores the tension between reverence and the profane by creating a manifold portrait of Mohamed appropriated from Egyptian cinema.
In Search of Mohamed: Archive of Opening Credits by Ezz Monem is part of the 2022 City of Yarra Exhibition Program.
Dates: Thursday 17 November 2022 to Sunday 22 January 2023 Location: Fitzroy Library, 128 Moor Street, Fitzroy. Library opening hours.
Image: ‘Thawrat Al-Madina (Revolution of the city)’, from the series ‘In search of Mohamed: archive of opening credits’, 2020, archival pigment print, editions of 5, by Ezz Monem. Image courtesy of the artist and This Is No Fantasy gallery, Melbourne. Image description: Black and white film still showing an urban desert landscape in the distance and three columns in silhouette in the foreground. Written in Arabic, the name Mohamed is in white text on the right-hand side of the image.
Final day of ‘Gertrude Studios 2022’ @gertrudecontemporary, curated by Tim Riley Walsh.
‘Touching the Pyramids: Majed meets Baldessari, Ohakune, 23 October’, timber wall painted by Majed Fayad, Ohakune paint, Tasmanian Oak frames, archival pigment prints, 41 x 29 cm (framed); 240 x 320 x 65 cm, 2022.
‘Touching the Pyramids: Majed meets Baldessari, Ohakune, 23 October’ Currently showing at @gertrudecontemporary as part of Studios 2022 exhibition, curated by @tim.riley.walsh.
Timber wall painted by Majed Fayad, Ohakune paint, Tasmanian Oak frames, archival pigment prints, 41 x 29 cm (framed); 240 x 320 x 65 cm, 2022.
#Repost@brunswick.temporary ・・・ Next up! Opening this Saturday! We’re very excited to present ‘The way we talk (about it)’, a group show featuring these amazing artists
A selection of 12 prints from the series ‘In Search of Mohamed: Archive of Opening Credits’ will be exhibited at Fitzroy Library from Thursday 17 November 2022 to Sunday 22 January 2023.
Opening hours: Monday: 10am to 6pm Tuesday: 10am to 8pm Wednesday: 10am to 8pm Thursday: 10am to 8pm Friday: 10am to 6pm Saturday: 10am to 4pm Sunday: 2pm to 5pm
Address: 128 Moor Street, Fitzroy.
The work is presented as part of Yarra City Council’s exhibition program. @yarracityarts
