2026
Based on a scene from the Egyptian novel The Revolution of 2053: The Beginning, by Mahmoud Uthman, and referencing another scene from Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), a time-traveler recounts his vision of the future of the Pyramids area, and by extension Egypt, in the year 2026 – a vision that strains to imagine a future but remains severely confined by the present’s imaginal constraints.
Maha Maamoun is an artist, curator and independent publisher working with still and moving images and text. She is a founding board member of the Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) – an independent non-profit space for art and culture founded in Cairo in 2004, and co-founder of Kayfa ta, a publishing and curatorial platform founded in 2012.
Egito, 2010, 9’
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Maha Maamoun