Mashrabia Gallery is pleased to announce its first participation in Beirut Art Fair, the leading art fair in the Middle East, with a presentation of artworks by artist Ali Abdel Mohsen, entitled True Stories. Opening on Friday, 16 September and running until Sunday, 18 September, 2016.
Ali Abdel Mohsen uses line drawings and acrylic colours mixed with dirt and cigarette ashes on the surfaces of disused cardboard boxes to convey his impressions of decline in contemporary Egypt. Strongly influenced by his surroundings, his work depicts a dystopic world of nihilism and paranoia. Placed in post-apocalyptic scenarios of undefined urban spaces, the scenes portray a society where violence, chaos and corruption have taken over. The individual plays no role: his subjects are faceless victims of the system. As a way of undermining the dictatorial reality he lives in, he turns art into a means for everyday social and civil resistance.
Ali Abdel Mohsen uses line drawings and acrylic colours mixed with dirt and cigarette ashes on the surfaces of disused cardboard boxes to convey his impressions of decline in contemporary Egypt. Strongly influenced by his surroundings, his work depicts a dystopic world of nihilism and paranoia. Placed in post-apocalyptic scenarios of undefined urban spaces, the scenes portray a society where violence, chaos and corruption have taken over. The individual plays no role: his subjects are faceless victims of the system. As a way of undermining the dictatorial reality he lives in, he turns art into a means for everyday social and civil resistance.