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Since 2015, Noha Mokhtar (*Geneva, lives and works between Zurich, Cairo and the United States) and Sahar Suliman (*Cairo, lives and works between Geneva, Cairo and Vaugondry) have been interviewing Egyptian men and women of different generations and socio-economic backgrounds about their experiences within their families. Based on these interviews, they created six characters—the six members of a fictional family that we discover in a newly created video installation. Marking their first joint exhibition, Saga-Mythology of departure deals with the construction of individual and collective identities, the sense of belonging and family claustrophobia. Through this project, Mokhtar and Suliman seek to dismantle the family in order to better understand the mechanisms of power that constitute it.
Noha Mokhtar and Sahar Suliman are cousins. They share (half) a family, a diasporic condition, and an experience as women artists. Their work together was born of a desire to re…
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Since 2015, Noha Mokhtar (*Geneva, lives and works between Zurich, Cairo and the United States) and Sahar Suliman (*Cairo, lives and works between Geneva, Cairo and Vaugondry) have been interviewing Egyptian men and women of different generations and socio-economic backgrounds about their experiences within their families. Based on these interviews, they created six characters—the six members of a fictional family that we discover in a newly created video installation. Marking their first joint exhibition, Saga-Mythology of departure deals with the construction of individual and collective identities, the sense of belonging and family claustrophobia. Through this project, Mokhtar and Suliman seek to dismantle the family in order to better understand the mechanisms of power that constitute it.
Noha Mokhtar and Sahar Suliman are cousins. They share (half) a family, a diasporic condition, and an experience as women artists. Their work together was born of a desire to re…
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