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30/11/2014

Rana El Nemr

Sharjah Art Gallery - AUC Center for the Arts The American University, Sharjah

Assembled in Streams of Synonyms, Rana ElNemr’s solo exhibition at Sharjah Art Gallery, explores an intangible quality that she encounters in urban, architectural, literary, personal or imaginal spaces. It is a quality that renders these spaces susceptible to transformation - functional, mis-planned or abandoned as they may be.

This subjective quality opens these spaces up to malleable structures of meaning, which the artist refers to as inner voids. Such physical and perceptual voids act as powerful fields that draw in personal sensations, images and imaginaries, and generate new ones. Whether found in the public or the private sphere, each is an intimately personal space in the sense that its discovery or creation is the result of the unique encounter of subjectivity with a space.

In the different images, objects and spaces that ElNemr summons to this exhibition, she observes the shape and density of these voids, their emotional triggers, and their capacity to host the imagination. A lamppost here becomes the breeding ground of a living organism, a ghost city reveals signs of actual life, while highways and gardens fall short of, or exceed, their use-value and engage in a transformative speculation.

Over a number of years and projects, ElNemr has examined the relationships that people have with their surroundings - be they observational, investigative, interventional, or territorial. In this exhibition she explores these fluid spaces through the different sensitivities to time and space expressed in the mediums of photography, video, 16mm film, sculpture, and text.

Assembled in Streams of Synonyms is curated by Maha Maamoun, and is a part of AUC_LAB, a new series of monographic exhibitions and projects by artists from the region.

BIO
Rana ElNemr is an artist who works primarily with photography, but also engages text, film, sound, and sculpture. She has performed extensive research and developed various workshops, which aim to analyze, question, and develop our relationship with the images we produce or consume. ElNemr has received several awards for her work and research on the image, and has held exhibitions at the Townhouse Gallery Cairo, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (ZKM). She is a co-founder of the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC), a space for arts and culture founded in Cairo in 2004.

Press contact:
Leena Sadek, the Coordinator of the AUC Visual Cultures Program: leena.sadek@aucegypt.edu

The Sharjah Art Gallery is the exhibition space of the Department of the Arts / Visual Cultures Program of the American University in Cairo (AUC).

Sharjah Art Gallery
AUC Center for the Arts, The American University in Cairo, AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74 New Cairo, 11835 Egypt
Hours: open daily 9am-4pm, except Fridays and public holidays

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