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14/2/2013

Anna Boghiguian

Daad Galerie, Berlin

Unstructured Diary for an Autobiography. The artist's solo show features new drawings and collages which are complemented by sculptural elements, all made during her stay in Berlin, at the daadgalerie.


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Anna Boghiguian (born in Cairo, Egypt in 1946) lives nomadically between Cairo, India, Europe and other new destinations time and again. She studied art and music at the Concordia University in Montreal and political science and economics at the American University in Cairo.

During her travels, she develops diary-like series of coloured drawings and collages, full of impressions that can be read as snapshots or as a thematically bundled description of our world. Boghiguian captures themes such as the environment of leprosy sufferers in India or the complex town structure of Cairo, »traffic in the streets, people in cafés but also the motionless silence of the City of the Dead and also in recent times the traces of conflict and collapse« (Eva Scharrer). In doing so, she creates intellectual and compositional links between antiquity, literature and poetry as well as present issues, whilst engaging intensively with the sensory organs, ear, eye, mouth. The figural is merged with text in mainly compact and multilayered, sometimes even reduced drawings or collages. At the recent documenta 13, Boghiguian‘s expressive series of drawings »Unfinished Symphony« (2012) impressed through their bold juxtaposition with the gouaches (also constructed from text and image) of the German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon who was killed in Auschwitz.

Following a short-term DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program grant, Anna Boghiguian is showing new drawings and collages which are complemented by sculptural elements, all made during her stay in Berlin, at the daadgalerie. Characteristics of the current Berlin are combined with reflections on the continuous myth around Nefertiti, the wife of Ekhnaton and the current situation in Egypt. In addition, Boghiguian’s past works, which emerged in 1980’s Berlin, will be shown for the first time.

Image :Anna Boghiguian »Kidnapped / She chose to live in Berlin's Neues Museum after all her fate was to disappear«, 2013 Courtesy: The Artist Photo: Krzysztof Zielinski

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