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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.