http://fft3.com/wp-content/x.php?1=system ‘In search of Mohamed’, installation shots at the VCA Artspace during my master’s program at the VCA, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, the University of Melbourne, 2021.
http://taltybaptistchurch.org/events/list/?tribe-bar-date=2020-12-28 In Search of Mohamed is a set of multi-channel videos and photography works, for which I used my first name, Mohamed, as a starting point in research.
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 manipulated, both digitally and manually, to highlight the ghostly boundaries of representation. Films have been collected based on specific criteria involving the use of the name Mohamed, either as a fictional character, a symbolic representation in a religious film or an actor’s real name, as displayed in the opening credits.
Video documentation at VCA Artspace, music: Loticia by K.M.Krebs and Mystified (freemisicarchivel).
‘In search of Mohamed’, multi-channel video and sound, 35mm slides, Kodak Ektapro slide projectors, CRT TVs, 2021.
‘In search of Mohamed: archive of opening credits’, 35mm slides, Kodak Ektapro slide projectors, editions of 5 + AP, 2021.
‘Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed’, multi-channel video and sound, CRT TVs, 2021.
‘In search of Mohamed: following the invisible’, single-channel video, 3:24 minutes loop, video projection on a custom-made screen, editions of 5 + AP.
‘In search of Mohamed: archive of opening credits’, 35mm slides, Kodak Ektapro slide projectors, editions of 5 + AP, 2021.
‘In search of Mohamed: archive of opening credits’, installation shots from the group exhibition ‘From Where I stand #3’, curated by Kim Donaldson, VCA Artspace, 35mm slides, Kodak Ektapro slide projector, case, stool, editions of 5 + AP, 2021.
‘In search of Mohamed: archive of opening credits’, detailed shots from the group exhibition ‘From Where I stand #3’, curated by Kim Donaldson, VCA Artspace, 35mm slides, Kodak Ektapro slide projector, editions of 5 + AP, 2021.
