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Articles on Hamdi Attia
Hamdi Attia: Giving Them Enough Rope
By Lucy R. Lippard
With Public Figures, a series of densely political videos manipulated so that the subjects expose themselves and their post 9/11 agendas, Hamdi Attia slyly insinuates himself into their discourse -- into the billion-dollar business of TV news and commentary. Born, raised, and art-schooled in Egypt, now living in New York, Attia’s visual intelligence on the Middle East may be over the heads of those accustomed to Fox News. His videos are not exposes and not rants. Their subtly satirical tone gives Daniel Pipes, Tom Friedman, and Richard Perle enough rope to hang themselves; the artist has only to keep reeling it out.
Mistranslating the Untranslatable: Four Recent Works by Hamdi Attia
By Waiel Ashry
Hamdi Attia’s latest work can be read as a detailed study of the social and political implications inherent in the act of translation. In four of his latest works, Attia inscribes his presence – as artist, as commentator– on already existing texts and discourses. This presence takes the form of an extended marginalia inhabiting the periphery of authoritative cultural translations of the world and the self. In doing so, Attia deconstructs their claims, and de-naturalizes their allegedly natural rendering of the world.
Remaking the World: The Cartography of Hamdi Attia
by Abdellah Karroum
The artist’s desire to understand his world and to represent it, to offer it as a living place, a place that is at once nowhere and completely unique, is a fundamental part of the artist’s project, of his way of being in the world.
Video Works
By Hamdi Attia
Two Performances.Ram. 2006
Clip duration: 1:03 minutes. Video work duration: 12 minutes.
In the Public Eye. 2005-6.
Clip duration: 1:42 minutes. Video work duration: 11 minutes.
Ladies and Gentlemen. 2005.
Clip duration: 2:02 minutes. Video work duration: 11 minutes.
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Bio:
Hamdi Attia was born in Assiut, Egypt in 1964. He studied at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo, and pursued advanced studies in painting and sculpture at the Egyptian Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Attia also received an MFA in sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania. He represented Egypt at the Venice Biennial in 1995, taking the top pavilion prize with Akram Al-Magdoub. He was also selected for the Cairo Biennial in 1997, and the Canaries Biennial in 2006. His work has been featured in private and group exhibitions in Cairo, New York, Paris, Rome, Sao Paulo, Detroit, Copenhagen, Zanzibar, and Philadelphia. He has been commissioned for a number of public works in Egypt, Italy, and the U.S. Attia currently lives and works between Cairo and New York.
Contact:
hamdiattia@gmail.com
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