Khaled Hafez
Contaminated Culture (Tripartite Project). 2006 - 2007
Photos, objects, painting, video
The artist about his work
For slightly more than ten years I have been probing in my artwork the notion of identity; I personally believe that Egypt enjoys a polyvalent identity that influences in every possible way everyone and everything living on its land: Mediterranean, African, Middle Eastern, Arab, with several layers of culture, cumulative enough to create today a cultural overload, manifested in the last few decades by jammed and distorted streams of thought.
Visions of Contaminated Memory tries to probe, through the accumulation of created and stock sounds and images, the cultural contamination that is much represented in the state of identity confusion omnipresent today in many parts of the Middle East.
© Khaled Hafez about his video, part of this project. From the catalogue of Sharjah Biennial 8, 2007.
© Photos: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe
1ª parte del foto tour por la Bienal de Sharjah 8, 4 abril - 4 junio 2007. Directora de la Bienal: Hoor Al Qasimi. Director artístico: Jack Persekian. Curadores: Mohammed Kazem, Eva Scharrer, Jonathan Watkins. 79 artistas y grupos.