Krowswork will present a new video by Malak Helmy (b. 1982, Egypt) titled Records from the Excited State, Chapter 3: Lost Referents of Some Attraction. This work debuted at the Gwangju Biennial in 2012 and recently showed at the Arsenal section of the famed Berlinale Film Festival.

Much of Helmy's video work visually references the new cultural and architectural constructs of her native Egypt, disputing their too-easy claim on reality and seeking a truer center for psychical meaning. The rhythm of her videos emulates that of desire, but the pathos of the work is of desire left waiting, as time-and its trappings of expectation, language, will-is suspended. With this deft poetry, Helmy's video art succinctly and beautifully encapsulates the haunting liminality that defines this historical moment, in Egypt and everywhere. Helmy received her MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2010.  

 

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