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Basim Magdy

Born in 1977 in Assuit (Egypt).
Lives and works in Cairo.

A young Egyptian artist, Basim Magdy has developed a rich iconography from scenes of violence presented in the mass media and which places our lives in a constant negotiation between fiction and reality. For What Comes, Basim Madgy will present a re-update of the work Last Good Deed, a huge printed tarpaulin which will be hung in the public space in Rennes. The work structures image and text in a universe that is at once contemporary and biblical, the image referring to an advertising aesthetic and the text to a religious notion, Heaven. The work derides human nature characterised by a Prometheus desire for more and more information, for ever more control over nature, which has been exacerbated by Western modernity. The poster distributed at the Couvent des Jacobins will echo the exterior work by its mention of a biblical plague, which evokes present day climatic disturbances, the consequence of our selfish exploitation of the world.

And The Future of your Head (2008) on loan, courtesy Newman Popiashvili