Photography
©Maha Maamoun
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp.
For the series Cairoscapes, Maamoun photographs the many dresses with floral patterns seen daily on the streets of Cairo. For Maamoun these comprise not only a surrogate for nature in an urban environment; they are also a point of calm amidst the city's harshness. Cairoscapes is assembled from panoramic photographs, presenting eye-level cityscapes of the everyday that are both fleeting and intimate.
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Using photography and video, Maha Maamoun explores the gap between the representation and the interpretation of particular events, between underlying politic
> Exhibition: Recent acquisitions. M HKA, Antwerp, 14 August 2015 - 31 January 2016.
> Ensemble: Aanwinsten 2015 [Acquisitions 2015].