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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.
#PHOTO2022festival #EzzMonem #THISISNOFANTASY @photofestivalau @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)
@ezzmonem
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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
#thisisnofantasy #ezzmonem
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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
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
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EZZ MONEM
“Monem sources the images from found photos, fiction films, videos and google street views. He utilizes 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, he attempts to make autoethnographic works that come from his background, of growing up in Egypt and his experience migrating to Australia.”
A selection of works from one of our newest artists, Ezz, is available now on the THIS IS NO FANTASY stockroom. Follow the link in our bio.
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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
#thisisnofantasy #ezzmonem
#Repost @this_is_no_fantasy
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SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
Explore Sydney Contemporary closes tonight at 11.59pm! Follow the link in our bio for your last chance to view our booth and exciting range of artists including: Juan Ford, Natasha Bieniek, Badra Aji, Ezz Monem, Charlie Ingemar Harding and Alexandra Standen.
Sydney Contemporary Explore Online
11 Nov, 10am – 21 Nov, 11.59pm
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Ezz Monem
The Pyramids Postcards – Following the policeman #2#11#7, 2019
hand-coloured oil on silver gelatin print, tasmanian oak custom frame
29 x 123 x 2cm, Ed of 5
$3,000
#thisisnofantasy #sydneycontemporary
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A selection of works by exciting new gallery artist, Ezz Monem, will be available online next week for Sydney Contemporary Explore @sydneycontemporary ⠀
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Showing alongside Badra Aji, Charlie Ingemar Harding, Alexandra Standen, Natasha Bieniek and Juan Ford. ⠀
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Sydney Contemporary Explore ⠀
11 – 21 Nov ⠀
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For enquiries please email info@thisisnofantasy.com⠀
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Ezz Monem⠀
The Pyramids Postcards – Following the policeman #5, 2018/19⠀
Hand-coloured oil on silver gelatin print, Tasmanian oak custom frame⠀
29 x 41cm, Ed of 5 + 1 AP ⠀
#EzzMonem #exploresydneycontemporary
The series ‘Revolutionary Failure’ has been shortlisted for the Incinerator Art Award and it will be exhibited at @incinerator_gallery, opening soon!
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Ezz Monem – IAA 2021 Shortlisted Artist
These images have been created by Ezz Monem in response to the tenth anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 during 18 days of protest in Cairo. These images have been revised from the artist’s archive and re-photographed.
An acid wash has erased parts of the emulsion from the film surface before the photograph is manually developed. The final results are located between re-photographs and deliberate erasures. Conceptually marking the passing of the revolution from a lived experience into the realm of a historical event.
Revolutionary Failure reflects a process of remembering the past whilst simultaneously attempting to forget historic events.
Ezz’s photographs will be displayed at this year’s Incinerator Art Award Exhibition, opening soon! To read more, visit https://bit.ly/IncineratorAA2021
Ezz Monem, Revolutionary Failure, 2021, photography.
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We’re pleased to announce representation of exciting new artist Ezz Monem @ezzmonem⠀
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Monem will have his first solo show with THIS IS NO FANTASY for Photo2022 next April.⠀
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Monem is a photo-based artist from Egypt who lives and works in Melbourne. He uses photography to explore the pluralism of reality. The images playing with sensations of ambivalence and conflict, giving visual form to the multiplicity of identity in places, people, and objects.⠀
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Monem sources the images from found photos, fiction films, videos and google street views. He utilizes 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, he attempts to make auto-ethnographic works that come from his background, of growing up in Egypt and his experience migrating to Australia.⠀
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Ezz Monem, Revolutionary Failure #1 and #5, 2021⠀
Archival pigment print, Tasmanian Oak frame⠀
41cm X 29cm⠀
Ed of 5⠀
#EzzMonem #thisisnofantasy
‘A Whole Population of Poets’, a group exhibition curated by Davood Madadpoor.
SUMAC SPACE AN INITIATIVE DEVOTED TO CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICES OF THE MIDDLE EAST, SHOWS ITS FIFTH DIGITAL EXHIBITION A WHOLE POPULATION OF POETS
THE EXHIBITION IS ON-VIEW AT WWW.SUMAC.SPACE FROM JUNE 28th TO AUGUST 24th, 2021; Curated by Davood Madadpoor
Mohamed Abdelkarim, b. 1983, El Minya, Egypt. Ibrahim Ahmed, b. 1984, Kuwait. Lives and works in Ard El Lewa, Egypt. Esraa Elfeky, b. 1989, Cairo, Egypt. Tareque Elsharquawy, b. 1990, Alexandria, Egypt. Ezz Monem, b. 1985, Cairo Egypt. Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Sara Sallam, b. 1991, Giza Egypt. Lives and works in Delft, Netherlands. Islam Shabana, b. 1988, Cairo Egypt.
Source: https://sumac.space/exhibitions/a-whole-population-of-poets/
You can check the full project on:
The work is accompanied by an interactive digital poem by Angela Glindemann, one of KINGS Emerging Writers.
Courstey of Noir Darkroom.
Closing event January 25th.
This Exhibition was awarded to Ezz through 2019’s CCP Salon as the winner or NOIR Darkroom’s ‘Most Experimental Image.’