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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.

@cityofyarra #CityOfYarra #ContemporaryArt #EzzMonem @yarralibraries #YarraLibraries #YarraCityArts @ezzmonem

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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.

@cityofyarra #CityOfYarra #ContemporaryArt #EzzMonem @yarralibraries #YarraLibraries #YarraCityArts @ezzmonem

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.

Special thanks to @maf.zhf for the collaboration, @peter_hatzipavlis for printing, @tim.riley.walsh, @ianbunyi__ and @shannon.mcculloch for installing the work!

Exhibition open until 17 December 2022
Gertrude Contemporary | 21-31 High Street, Preston South
Open Hours | Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm

Image1, 2: Installation view, Gertrude Studios 2022, featuring ‘Touching the Pyramids: Majed meets Baldessari, Ohakune, 23 October’ by Ezz Monem, presented at Gertrude Contemporary 2022. Photo: Christian Capurro. 

Courtesy of @thisisnofantasy

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Next up! Opening this Saturday! We’re very excited to present ‘The way we talk (about it)’, a group show featuring these amazing artists

Benton Ching @mrnotneb
Marcela Escudero @marceescudero.g
Hootan Heydari @hootan_heydari
Lichen Kelp @lichenkelp
Karleng Lim @karleng_lim
Ezz Monem @ezzmonem
Hamuera Rimene @hamu_era
Thitibodee Rungteerawattananon @thitibodee_r
Scotty So @scotty.so
Mary Szydlowska @maryszydlowska
ZAM @zam_artist
Azza Zein @3azzazein
Bixiao Zhang (The ElectroPoetics) @the_electropoetics

Come celebrate with us before we wind down for the year

Opening: Saturday, 26 Nov, 3-5 pm
Where: 263 Lygon St, Bulleke-bek/ Brunswick
Showing: Wed-Sat, 12-5 pm
Show ends: Sat 17 Nov, 5 pm

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

@thisisnofantasy

Join us to celebrate the exhibition opening on Thursday, 10 November from 6-8pm at Gertrude Contemporary @gertrudecontemporary.

Gertrude’s annual Gertrude Studios exhibition presents new and recent works produced in the organisation’s 16 studios and celebrates the site as a conduit for dialogue and making. As a collective snapshot of the practices supported within the program, the exhibition offers the opportunity to experience a broad diversity of works from leading arts practitioners in Naarm Melbourne, as well as 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 @tim.riley.walsh 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. The exhibition features work from each of Gertrude’s seventeen current Studio Artists, displayed across all of the galleries at Preston South.

Image: Catherine Bell, Sensory Archaeology #2 (Mother’s Archive) (detail), 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Sutton Gallery.

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Tomorrow is the last day of our exhibition – Abutting Afar -. Part of KAISERSLAUTERN Foro-Fest.
I’ll be there afternoon from 16:00 Uhr.
You are more than welcome.
Kunstlager22
@fotofestkaiserslautern #kwg #kaiserslautern #art #visualart #exhibition #festival #germany #artscene #hamdyreda #curating #photography #culture

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‘Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed’ explores the tension between reverence and the profane by creating a manifold portrait of Mohamed appropriated from Egyptian cinema.⁠
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Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed⁠
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Blindside ARI⁠
The Nicholas Building⁠
Room 14, Level 7, 37 Swanston Street⁠
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Ezz Monem, In search of Mohamed: archive of opening credits, 2021. 35mm slides, Kodak Ektapro slide projectors⁠
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#ezzmonem #thisisnofantasy @ezzmonem @blindside_ari

#Repost @blindside_ari
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Opening 6pm-8pm, Thur 11 Aug
Ezz Monem @ezzmonem ‘Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed’.
All welcome!
On view 10 – 27 August 2022. Gallery opening hours Wed-Sat, 12pm-6pm.
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‘Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed’ is a multichannel video, sound, and slide projection work which is part of a larger project using the artist’s first name ‘Mohamed’ as a starting point.
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The project explores the tension between reverence and the profane by creating a manifold portrait of Mohamed appropriated from Egyptian cinema.
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In this iteration, an archive of the name has been built based on specific criteria that involve the use of the name Mohamed, either as a fictional character, a symbolic representation in a religious film, or an actor’s real name displayed in the opening credits.
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The process of copying images and videos has been accompanied by erasure and transformative processes de-contextualizing the different references of the name and highlighting the ghostly boundaries of representation.
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#blindsideARI #ezzmonem #onsite #exhibition

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THIS IS NO FANTASY @this_is_no_fantasy, Naarm/Melbourne, is currently presenting ‘In Search of Mohamed’ by Ezz Monem (@ezzmonem). The artist’s first solo show with the gallery comprises a set of multichannel videos and photography works using his first name ‘Mohamed’ as a starting point for his research.
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“In this long-term project, I try to explore the tension between reverence and the profane by building a photographic and video archive based on specific criteria that involves the use of the name Mohamed, appropriated from films I grew up watching in Egypt, or recent Middle Eastern films I encountered during my research,” says Monem.
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Read more in Diego Ramirez (@diegoismonster)’s feature on Monem in the ‘What Next’ section of Art Collector’s 100th issue.

​‘In Search of Mohamed’ is on view until 21 May at @this_is_no_fantasy, as part of PHOTO 2022 @photofestivalau. Image details in comments.

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Salaam Ezz Monim!

Tune in to Salaam Radio today for a live interview with Ezz Monim! Ezz will be telling us about his exhibition titled In Search of Mohamed on @this_is_no_fantasy gallery until the 22nd of May!
We ll be then plying a selection of modern Arabic music from his motherland Egypt including ambient, Jazz, Mahraganat, Trap and Classical Egyptian music.
Tune in today from 4-5pm to @3crmelbourne 855AM. Stream live and listen back on 3cr.org.au

#Repost @this_is_no_fantasy
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We’re pleased to present In Search of Mohamed, Monem’s first solo exhibition with THIS IS NO FANTASY for PHOTO 2022. ⁠
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Open today 12 – 5pm.⁠
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In Search of Mohamed is a set of multichannel videos and photography works using the artist’s first name ‘Mohamed’ as a starting point for his research.⁠
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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. Images are collected, viewed, archived and both digitally and manually manipulated to highlight the ghostly boundaries of representation.⁠
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@ezzmonem⁠
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Ezz Monem⁠
In search of Mohamed, 20212⁠
Installation view⁠
Photography: Simon Strong⁠
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#ezzmonem #thisisnofantasy

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If you’ve picked up the latest issue of Art Collector, you’ll spot Monem in the ‘What Next’ roundup – highlighting what artists should be on collector’s radars. ⁠
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‘Monem uses many strategies to engage with images and see their mechanisms, ranging from rephotographing pictures to appropriating scenes from cinema.’ (Art Collector)⁠
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Ezz Monem⁠
In search of Mohamed, 2021⁠
VCA Artspace, Installation view⁠
Photography: ALEC⁠
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#ezzmonem #thisisnofantasy

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People named Mohamed are encountered frequently across the globe, but for Melbourne-based Egyptian artist Ezz Monem, the name has personal resonance: his birth name was Mohamed Ezzeldin M. Abdelmonem. As well as being his first name, Mohamed is also a subject for creative exploration: it is the world’s most popular male name (with an array of spelling variants) and its most famous bearer is, of course, the prophet and founder of Islam.
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Ezz Monem’s ‘In Search of Mohamed’ at This is No Fantasy includes multichannel video and photography works that explore the tensions between “the reverent and the profane”.
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Read the full article by Andrew Stephens via the link in our bio.
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@ezzmonem @this_is_no_fantasy #EzzMonem #Thisisnofantasy
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Image: Ezz Monem, ‘In search of Mohamed’, 35mm slides, Kodak Ektapro slide projectors, 2021. Courtesy of THIS IS NO FANTASY.

#Repost @this_is_no_fantasy
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EZZ MONEM ⁠
PHOTO 2022 ⁠
opening next week ⁠
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We’re looking forward to Ezz Monem’s upcoming show ‘In Search of Mohamed’ for @photofestivalau opening next Friday 29 April. ⁠
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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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#thisisnofantasy #ezzmonem #PHOTO2022festival

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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
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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. ⁠
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‘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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@ezzmonem⁠
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Ezz Monem⁠
In search of Mohamed, 2021⁠
VCA Artspace, Installation view⁠
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#thisisnofantasy #ezzmonem #photo2022

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EZZ MONEM⁠
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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. ⁠
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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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#thisisnofantasy #ezzmonem