This program brings our attention to borderlines with works that are slimy, flowing, poetic, crunchy, humorous, and suspended. The body is in question, and time, as an agent, affects its surfaces and layers. The process of becoming is cyclical and continuous and sometimes involves work, rest, dedication, repetition, loss, growth, construction, and deconstruction. Ancient Egyptians conceived that the soul consists of many parts. These parts are conceptually complex and unclear because their meaning changes over time or possibly because of a lack of esoteric or occultist knowledge. The pictorial remnants to describe these parts of a soul include:
a fish,
a vessel with handles that resemble ears,
a pair of up-raised arms,
a human-headed bird,
a silhouette,
a cartouche,
among others.
Others, perhaps immortal, survive and transfigure from the image, spirituality, and aura of a soul. These parts can unite, exist simultaneously, detach, travel, fly, and have multiple existences. Today, additional parts of the concept of the soul exist in the extension of the soul into digital space. These works reflect on and propose other parts or new ways to express these same parts.
The program includes three works from the 4th edition of the Small File Media Festival, Vancouver, Canada, which received the Cairo Video Festival award.
Selection and Program: Mena El Shazly
