 'in/tangible cartographies – new arab video' was commisioned by World Wide Video Festival 2001, and especially curated by Jayce Salloum.
A wry look at the rising class in Cairo and how they deal with self-image.
With a backdrop of malls and clinics, questions of politics, religion, gender, economy, and marginality are couched in terms of questions of beauty and the body. The tape inhabits the expected structure and code of a television programme without parodying. Body alteration, want, the transference of cultural values, and impositions of society are examined albeit playfully, as a rejection of tradition and patriarchy or more subtly the modernist enforcement
of it.
– Jayce Salloum
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Production Alive dv Productions. European premiere
Hassan Khan ° 1975 London, UK
Lives and works in Cairo, Egypt
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