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Malaysian-Palestinian artist Mandy El-Sayegh .[Photo Abtin Eshraghi. Courtesy of the artist and Lawrie Shabibi]
"One day, Mandy El-Sayegh went to an Egyptian doctor to have her wisdom teeth removed. One tooth snapped on both sides, and the root was left behind. As the doctor was rocking her skull back and forth to remove the tooth, he said “That is a very Palestinian molar.”"
The interview with Mandy El Sayegh for MEM titled, "Change Made Visible" opens strongly, and leads into a little background into El-Sayeghs roots as a Palestinian-Mayalsian, and the prominence of her work as political, social, and philosophical commentary, before reviewing her most recent solo show at Lawrie Shabibi, 'A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.'
"As a collagist, I am taking pre-existing forms – whether that is a tabloid newspaper, sentences, anatomy, installation or architecture – and rearranging those things,” says the artist. “This means that the relations we previously understood are disturbed. You can see the absurdity of the original, or become aware of how the things that we normally consume without question are constructed.” READ MORE...
The interview with Mandy El Sayegh for MEM titled, "Change Made Visible" opens strongly, and leads into a little background into El-Sayeghs roots as a Palestinian-Mayalsian, and the prominence of her work as political, social, and philosophical commentary, before reviewing her most recent solo show at Lawrie Shabibi, 'A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.'
"As a collagist, I am taking pre-existing forms – whether that is a tabloid newspaper, sentences, anatomy, installation or architecture – and rearranging those things,” says the artist. “This means that the relations we previously understood are disturbed. You can see the absurdity of the original, or become aware of how the things that we normally consume without question are constructed.” READ MORE...
