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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.

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