Drawing
no. 37, 2007 - 2008, pencil on paper, 36 x 27 cm
The Girl Splendid in Walking
by Doa Aly (Egypt)
The
feeling of displaced and restricted physical movement and
its impact on the expression of the individual is explored
in Doa Aly's work. Aly's videos reveal her investigation into
deviant behavior, studying its transformation from the subjective
to the projected image when exposed to different situations
and contexts. In the works presented, the artist finds inspiration
through the study of human anatomy and performance-based practices
such as dance and circus
acrobatics. Her video works tend to refer to fictional characters
either created by the artist herself or found in the literary
world of artists such as Guy de Maupassant, Wilhelm Jensen
and Ovid. In these stories, the human body expresses the conflict
of moving from the old self to the new one. The show features
a selection of Aly's drawings and her video works: A Tress
of Hair (2008), Sequence One-In Four Movements (2010),
and The Girl Splendid in Walking (2009), which was
partly filmed at Darat al Funun.
Works
on show:
Sequence One-In Four Movements (2010, video
7'54")
The Girl Splendid in Walking (2009, 19'43")
A Tress of Hair (2008, 12'43")
Drawings 34, 42, 45, 44, 35, 37, 39 (2007/8,
pencil on paper, 36x27 cm each)
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Doa
Aly was born in Cairo in 1976 and graduated
in 2001 with a BA in painting from the Faculty
of Fine Arts in Cairo. She has taken part in a
number of group shows such at the Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam (2008), the Rotor Association for Contemporary
Art in Graz (2008), Tate Modern, London (2007),
the Arnolfini Museum, Bristol (2007), the
Contemporary Art Forum, London (2007),
the Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva (2007).
In 2006 she participated
in the 7th Dakar Biennial, Senegal, and the exhibition
Snap Judgements at the International
Center of Photography in New York. |
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