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    Mandy El-Sayegh : White Grounds

    From September 27 through December 14, 2019
    Opening on Thursday, September 27th, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

    Curated by Mélanie Bouteloup

    Mandy El-Sayegh lives and works in London, UK. El-Sayegh’s prac­tice is rooted in assem­blage. Executed in a wide range of media, including densely lay­ered paint­ings, sculp­ture, instal­la­tion, dia­grams, as well as sound and video, Her works inves­ti­gate the for­ma­tion and break-down of sys­tems of order, be they bodily, lin­guistic or polit­ical. Drawing from a wide range of research and ref­er­ence mate­rial, El-Sayegh incor­po­rates pop cul­tural imagery, sci­en­tific dia­grams, com­mer­cial pack­aging as well as objects from her per­sonal archive, decon­tex­tu­al­izing the familiar to create new mean­ings. El-Sayegh char­ac­terises her works as being pre­oc­cu­pied with ‘part-to-whole’ rela­tions and with the for­ma­tion of sub­jec­tivity - how frag­ments can be uni­fied to a coherent whole.

    With the com­plicity of the Chisenhale gallery (London, UK), the com­mis­sion given to the artist for this exhi­bi­tion includes a series of new paint­ings in which her sin­gular pic­to­rial ges­ture is asso­ci­ated with the use of latex, the col­lec­tion of found objects and the printing tech­nique.

    Selected solo exhi­bi­tions include: Dispersal, Lehmann Maupin Gallery (Hong Kong, 2019); Cite Your Sources, Chisenhale Gallery (London, 2019); The Mistake Room, Guadalajara (Mexico, 2018); Figured Ground: Meshworks, Carl Kostyál (London 2017); Taking Part, Galerie Mihai Nicodim, Bucharest (Romania 2016); This is a sign, Carlos/Ishikawa (London, 2016). Selected Group Exhibitions include: Searching the Sky for Rain, SculptureCenter (New York, 2019); Biennial 13: Tamawuj (Sharjah, UAE, 2017); and Room Services, New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, (New York, 2016). In 2017 El-Sayegh was short­listed for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Whitechapel Gallery, London.