Maha Maamoun is a founding board member of the Contemporary Image Collective, an independent non-profit space for art and culture founded in Cairo in 2004.
14 Facts About Maha Maamoun
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Maha Maamoun co-founded the independent publishing platform called Kayfa-ta in 2013.
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Maha Maamoun was awarded the Jury Prize for her film Domestic Tourism II at Sharjah Biennal 9.
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Maha Maamoun was born in Oakland, California in 1972 and grew up in Cairo.
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Maha Maamoun studied Economics and received an MA in Middle Eastern History.
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In 2004 Maha Maamoun co-founded the independent non-profit space for art and culture: Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo.
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Maha Maamoun was the co-curator of International Visual Arts Festival PhotoCairo3 in Cairo in 2005 and assistant curator for Meeting Points 5 in Berlin in 2007.
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In 2018, Maha Maamoun joined the Forum Expanded curatorial team.
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Maha Maamoun is interested in social conditioning and how the visual presentation of places and environments is expanded to appeal to different audiences.
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Maha Maamoun is specifically interested in urban fabric of her home city Cairo, drawing attention in her photographic works to the visual contradictions that surround her.
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Maha Maamoun reflects on generic and overused national symbols and the ways in which they have been appropriated to construct personal narratives and collective histories.
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Maha Maamoun discovered that a lot of the scenes by the pyramids are quite politically charged and tied to distinct chapters in Egypt's modern history.
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Maha Maamoun visited many public notary offices across Cairo to record the appearance of these prayers.
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Maha Maamoun's work was shown in biennials and festivals including the 6th Dak'art Biennale, Dakar; Bamaco 03, Mali; 9th Gwangju Biennale; Sharjah Biennial 10; Transmediale 2014, Berlin and 64th Berlinale, Berlin.