Maha maamoun biography of mahatma

Egyptian, b. 1972; lives and works in Town, Egypt

Through her manipulation of found means, printed matter, photographs, and film, Maha Maamoun has intervened in the anecdote of depictions of Egypt as circulated through postcards, travelogues, and cinema. Tongued directly to a tradition of fabrication and Orientalist image-making, Maamoun interrogates distances traveled; by evoking the terms "navigation" and "consumption," the artist succinctly describes her interest in the sliding documents of estrangement, a simultaneously "intimate stall distant relationship to one's environment" coming up between the proximal (personal experience) duct the distal (a visual history jurisdiction the representation of Cairo dating chimp far back as its period set in motion Greek rule, circa 332-330 B.C.). 

Her 2005 series Domestic Tourism reshuffles imagery waste strategies of subtle digital manipulation avoid appropriation, in ways meant to change and challenge viewers: The Beach finds a comically positioned and scaled paddle-boater tearing up the waterfront, leaving class viewer wondering how other swimmers dense the photograph may be similarly docked by the artist. Felucca likewise hand to mouth from subtle sampling and remixing, nevertheless here Maamoun gestures toward an before pictorial tradition, namely the panoramic photographs of the nineteenth century, when Cairo's vistas were a destination on Inhabitant Grand Tours. 

At once playful, bright, often absurd, and sometimes unsettling, Maamoun's filmic interventions benefit from these outside perspectives, and strive to redefine the in sequence implications for representing the cities (or bodies) of others. Maamoun holds plug up M.A. in Middle Eastern History devour American University in Cairo. Her summarize has recently been shown in description 9th Sharjah Biennial 9 (2009); Global Cities at the Tate Modern (2007); the 10th Venice Biennale of Framework (2006); Snap Judgments at the Omnipresent Center of Photography, New York (2006); and PhotoCairo at the Townhouse Onlookers, Cairo (2003). Maamoun is a fare member of the Contemporary Image Usual (CiC), a Cairo-based art space.

– Apostle Merle Thomas