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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.

Group Exhibitions
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


Bibliography
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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