I’m doing a short artist talk and Q&A with NGV Curator, @annaehonan tomorrow 20th January at 6:30pm.
It will be at the NGV International @ngvmelbourne, the exhibition space, Level 2. For details: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/artist-talk-ezz-monem-hosted-by-anna-honem/
The talk is part of the NGV TRIENNIAL EXTRA program, so there will be other events happening until night.
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The NGV Triennial 2023 is a powerful and moving snapshot of the world today as captured through the work of over 120 artists, designers and collectives working at the forefront of global contemporary practice.
Uniquely bringing contemporary art, design and architecture into dialogue with one another and traversing all four levels of NGV International, the NGV Triennial features nearly 100 projects led by creatives including Yoko Ono (Japan), Sheila Hicks (USA), Tracey Emin (UK), Betty Muffler (Australia), David Shrigley (UK), Maison Schiaparelli (France), Maurizio Cattelan (Italy), Shakuntala Kulkarni (India), Lin Fanglu (China), Ivan Navarro (Chile), Petrit Halilaj (Kosovo), Ihor Okuniev (Ukraine), Ezz Monem (Egypt), Thomas J Price (UK), Iris van Herpen (Netherlands), Jean Jullien (France), Fernando Laposse (Mexico), Azuma Makoto (Japan), Flora Yukhnovich (UK), Yee I-Lann (Malaysia), Farrokh Mahdavi (Iran), Hugh Hayden (USA), Elmgreen and Dragset (Denmark, Norway), and many more.
More than 25 projects commissioned by the NGV will make their world premiere at the NGV Triennial 2023, attesting to the extraordinary ways in which leading and emerging artists and designers capture and recount the stories of our time. With many of the works on display entering the NGV Collection, the NGV Triennial establishes a lasting legacy for Victoria that can be accessed for many generations to come. Visitors will encounter an array of artforms and disciplines, ranging from robotics to AI, textiles to sculpture, and animatronics to conceptual art.
Catch the NGV Triennial until 7 April 2024 at NGV International, Melbourne (@ngvmelbourne).
Images: Installation images of NGV Triennial, NGV, Melbourne.
Thrilled to be presenting work in the NGV Trianneal! My work can be seen on level 2, NGV International.
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100 artists and designers, 75+ projects, 1 week to go.
This time next Sunday, we’ll be opening the doors to NGV Triennial.
See you soon, Melbourne.
Free, open daily from 3 Dec at NGV International.
#NGV#NGVTriennial#Melbourne#Exhibition#FreeExhibition#Art#ArtGallery#ContemporaryArt#WhatsOnMelbourne
Dance Floor 2013: “I won’t go… You won’t come”, 2023, 2-channel video with soundtrack, disco ball, motor, spotlight, lenses.
Part of Gertrude Studios 2023, presented at @gertrudecontemporary. Curated by: @winnyyoyo
Installation shots by: Christian Capurro
Video editing by: @elfekyesraa
Friends in my little installation room during the opening of the annual studios exhibition @gertrudecontemporary, curated by @winnyyoyo.
Dance Floor 2013: “I won’t go… You won’t come”, 2023, two-channel video with soundtracks, disco ball, motor, spotlight, lenses.
Video editing by: @elfekyesraa
Photos by: @melonandwater
Gertrude’s annual studios exhibition is open Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm
@gertrudecontemporary
21 – 31 High Street, Preston South
Curated by @winnyyoyo
Exhibiting Artists: Elyas Alavi, Nathan Beard, Mia Boe, Arini Byng, Francis Carmody, Narelle Desmond, Ruth Höflich, Gian Manik, Dane Mitchell, Ezz Monem, Georgia Morgan, Steven Rhall, Nina Sanadze, Scotty So and Lisa Waup
As a collective snapshot of the practices supported within the program, this exhibition offers the opportunity to experience a broad diversity of works from leading arts practitioners in Naarm Melbourne and 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 Amelia Winata, 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.
Photos: Christian Capurro
#GertrudeContemporary #GertrudeStudioArtists #gertrudestudios2023
Opening tomorrow, Friday from 6 to 8pm!
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Gertrude Studios 2023 | Curated by Amelia Winata
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11 November – 17 December 2023
Opening Event | Friday 10 November, 6 – 8pm
21 – 31 High Street, Preston South
Exhibiting Artists: Elyas Alavi, Nathan Beard, Mia Boe, Arini Byng, Francis Carmody, Narelle Desmond, Ruth Höflich, Gian Manik, Dane Mitchell, Ezz Monem, Georgia Morgan, Steven Rhall, Nina Sanadze, Scotty So and Lisa Waup
Gertrude’s annual Gertrude Studios exhibition presents new and recent works produced in our 16 studios and celebrates the site as a conduit for dialogue and making.
Conceived across the year by the Gertrude Studio Artists and the Curator in Residence Amelia Winata, This exhibition provides a chance for the Studio Artists to experiment with divergent ideas or reflect on recent works in new configurations, all in conversation with the work of fellow practitioners.
Image: Gian Manik, Extinguisher (detail), 2023. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and @suttongallerymelbourne
@elyasalavi@nathansbeard@mia.khin.boe@_home_body@francis_carmody
@nazdez@nomadicslowaction@gian_manik@danemitchell@ezzmonem
Last few days!
Walkthrough on Saturday with the curator @karleng_lim and special guest @priyanamana.
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Jaime Emily Powell, Hootan Heydari and Ezz Monem transform objects and materials in our everyday lives as tender negotiations with memory, history and place, revealing stories in often ordinary landscapes rich with hidden dialogues.
@jaime.jaime ’s screens reconfigure space as a gesture of reclamation while hiding and protecting in their exploration of post-colonial identities. The making of @hootan_heydari ‘s objects that defies categorisation represents therapeutic acts of remembering, reflecting on his experiences and memories connected to Iran and the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution. And @ezzmonem ’s whimsical photographic installation hints at untold stories and transient lives.
‘Under the Covers’ is open Wed-Sat, 12 – 5 pm
263 Lygon St, Brunswick East
Curated by @karleng_lim
Hootan Heydari is represented by @futures_gallery
Ezz Monem is represented by @thisisnofantasy
Jaime Emily Powell’s digital rendering by Lindsay Mckittrick @lin.mck
#UnderTheCovers#ContemporaryArt#BrunswickTemporary#HootanHeydari#EzzMonem#JaimeEmilyPowell#KarlengLim#brunswick
Last couple of hours of @spring1883 Art Fair.
Thanks @thisisnofantasy for presenting my work with this group of amazing artists:
YHONNIE SCARCE | PHUONG NGO | ALI TAHAYORI MICHAEL COOK | JUAN FORD | SIMON DEGROOT
Suite#328
Thu 10 – Sat 11 Aug
11am – 7pm
The Hotel Windsor
111 Spring Street
Melbourne, VIC
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EZZ MONEM | YHONNIE SCARCE | PHUONG NGO | ALI TAHAYORI | MICHAEL COOK | JUAN FORD | SIMON DEGROOT
Visit us in Suite#328
Thu 10 – Sat 11 Aug
11am – 7pm
The Hotel Windsor
111 Spring Street
Melbourne, VIC
Tickets via @spring1883
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#spring1883 #thisisnofantasy #ezzmonem #yhonniescarce #phuongngo #alitahayori #michaelcook #juanford #simondegroot
Photography: Simon Strong
A selection of my work will be presented at @spring1883 Art Fair with @thisisnofantasy
HOTEL WINDSOR
#Spring1883 Art Fair
9-12 Aug 2023 @hotel_windsor Melbourne
#thisisnofantasy#spring1883
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18 MAY – 10 JUNE 2023
JOHNATHON WORLD PEACE BUSH | CHRIS BOND | SIMON DEGROOT | BADRA AJI | YHONNIE SCARCE
ALI TAHAYORI | PHUONG NGO | JUAN FORD | JILL ORR | JO PLANK | VINCENT NAMATJIRA | EZZ MONEM
PETRINA HICKS | BENJAMIN AITKEN | JANELLE LOW | ALEXANDRA STANDEN | OLIVER WATTS | NEIL HADDON _____________
#thisisnofantasy
Photo: Fi Storey
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18 MAY – 10 JUNE
Up next in the gallery, a group show celebrating gallery artists’ significant professional milestones.
Join us in the gallery for artist drinks
Sat 03 June 2 – 4PM
Please email info@thisisnofantasy.com for an exhibition catalogue
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We are excited to be showing the wonderful work of Ezz Monem @ezzmonem at the eighth edition of Photo London – on now!
Somerset House, London UK
11 – 14 May 2023
@artsy Digital Fair continues until 29 May
See link in bio for OVR + more information
or email us info@thisisnofantasy.com
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#thisisnofantasy #ezzmonem #photolondon2023 #photolondon #photolondonfair #photolondonovr @photolondonfair @ezzmonem @artsy
1. Ezz Monem, Touching The Pyramids #3, 2022 (detail), Pigment Print, framed, 29 × 41 cm, Ed of 5 + 2AP
2. Ezz Monem, 2022 Photo: Tim Herbert
The Night of Counting the Tears
28 April-15 July 2023
@islamicmuseumaustralia@ishak_raafat
The Night of Counting the Tears brings together the contemporary works of two Melbourne-based artists with Egyptian heritage, Raafat Ishak and Ezz Monem. Their works reflect on the journey and experience of migration from Egypt to Australia, meditating on the intersection between the contemporary and the archive. The exhibition features a range of media, including prints, paintings, videos and sound works that reflect on the archive to recover lost memories.
Raafat Ishak’s portrait paintings are derived from five passport size photographs which friends gave him in 1982 as he was departing Cairo airport to migrate to Australia. The paintings were embellished with five dormitory buildings at Trinity College Melbourne, which Raafat repurposes as the regal domains of his lost friends.
Raafat’s works also include a ruptured black box, a sound work and a 90 minute film, exploring multiple connections and traditions.
Ezz Monem’s work is part of a larger project using the artist’s first name ‘Mohamed’ as a starting point for his research. 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, collected, viewed, archived and manipulated, both digitally and manually, to highlight the ghostly boundaries of representation.
Works in the exhibition are courtesy of the artists, Sutton Gallery Melbourne and THIS IS NO FANTASY Gallery.
I’m donating this work to the 20th Birthday Fundraiser of @kingsartistrun, opens on Thursday 4th May 6-9pm.
Please join us for the fundraiser celebration that will show over 80 artists, performances and DJ!
Also check out the catalog in @kingsartistrun bio.
‘I see. I can see you’re tired of living here #4, pigment prints, Tasmanian Oak frames, edition 1 of 5 +AP, 2015/2021.
I began this series in 2015, the last year that I lived in Egypt before moving to Australia. It takes as its starting point a group of photographs taken inside Egypt. In collaboration with Google Image search and AI tools, I replicate, translate, and transform these images. The resulting works represent two lives, at once congruous and at odds, and the literal and metaphorical movement between them. How does my recreated life resemble my past life? How might visual similarities obscure emotional rifts? What mistakes and mistranslations happen in the interstices?
For the series, I uploaded my images to Google and used them to search for similar images. Without taking time to consider source or context, I rapidly selected an image from each set of results, paying exclusive attention to visual similarities. Later, I used Google’s Vision AI to perform a machine analysis of each of my images. The tool detects the elements that make up each photograph, and returns the results as a set of text descriptions. In this second act of translation, I again attempt to re-enact moments of my past life in the context of my new one.
The series’ title is excerpted from a text generated by a DeepAI tool, in response to the question, “Hey G, what do you see?” It sees that I’m tired, but the question remains—of which life? The one I left, or the one I’m living now?
Courtesy of THIS IS NO FANTASY @thisisnofantasy
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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.
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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.
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@thisisnofantasy
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You’re invited to Gertrude Open Day. Saturday 18 February.
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.]
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We’re pleased to welcome Ezz Monem as our current Creative Resident at MAL 🌟🌟 @ezzmonem
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.