Maha Maamoun
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Maha Maamoun is a visual artist based in Cairo. Her exhibitions include: Global Cities – Tate Modern, C on Cities – 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2006; Snap Judgments – ICP, NY, 2006; Biennial of Contemporary African art DAK’ART, Dakar, 2004; 5th Biennale of African photography, Bamako, 2003. She was co-curator of PhotoCairo3 - an international Photography and Video event based in Cairo, 2005, and assistant curator for Meeting Points 5 – a Multidisciplinary Contemporary Arts Festival happening in 9 cities of the Arab world (2007). Maamoun is one of the board members of the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) - a Cairo-based art institution.
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Selection:
2007 Global Cities. Tate Modern, London
2006 C on Cities. Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice
2006 Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography. ICP, NY
2005 Regards des photographes arabes contemporains. Institut Du Monde Arabe, Paris
2005 Meeting Points 4 Festival. Aman, Damascus, Tunis
2004 Nazar. Noorderlicht Photo Festival. Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
2004 Dak’Art 6 Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar
2004 PhotoCairo 2. Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
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ElBaroni, Bassam. The Realistic Postcard and the Aesthetics of Constructive Abjection.
Ryan, Nigel. “Nostalgias old and new”, Al-Ahram Weekly, p. 25, 25 Dec. 2003
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