Mandy El-Sayegh : White Grounds

From September 27 through December 14, 2019
Opening on Thursday, September 27th, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Curated by Mélanie Bouteloup

Mandy El-Sayegh lives and works in London, UK. El-Sayegh’s practice is rooted in assemblage. Executed in a wide range of media, including densely layered paintings, sculpture, installation, diagrams, as well as sound and video, Her works investigate the formation and break-down of systems of order, be they bodily, linguistic or political. Drawing from a wide range of research and reference material, El-Sayegh incorporates pop cultural imagery, scientific diagrams, commercial packaging as well as objects from her personal archive, decontextualizing the familiar to create new meanings. El-Sayegh characterises her works as being preoccupied with ‘part-to-whole’ relations and with the formation of subjectivity - how fragments can be unified to a coherent whole.

With the complicity of the Chisenhale gallery (London, UK), the commission given to the artist for this exhibition includes a series of new paintings in which her singular pictorial gesture is associated with the use of latex, the collection of found objects and the printing technique.

Selected solo exhibitions include: Dispersal, Lehmann Maupin Gallery (Hong Kong, 2019); Cite Your Sources, Chisenhale Gallery (London, 2019); The Mistake Room, Guadalajara (Mexico, 2018); Figured Ground: Meshworks, Carl Kostyál (London 2017); Taking Part, Galerie Mihai Nicodim, Bucharest (Romania 2016); This is a sign, Carlos/Ishikawa (London, 2016). Selected Group Exhibitions include: Searching the Sky for Rain, SculptureCenter (New York, 2019); Biennial 13: Tamawuj (Sharjah, UAE, 2017); and Room Services, New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, (New York, 2016). In 2017 El-Sayegh was shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, London.