Basim Magdy
Someone Tried to Lock up Time (Fish Tongue), 2018
2 C-Prints from chemically-altered slides on Fujiflex Metallic material
67 x 45 cm / 25.5 x 38 cm, each.
Overall dimensions 69 x 87 cm
Overall dimensions 69 x 87 cm
Edition 3 of 3 + 1 AP
In “Someone Tried to Lock Up Time”, Basim Magdy combines recognized objects of history with a poetic mysticism that invokes both alienation and a feeling of familiar complicity. The text...
In “Someone Tried to Lock Up Time”, Basim Magdy combines recognized objects of history with a poetic mysticism that invokes both alienation and a feeling of familiar complicity. The text acts like a measure of time, be it a philosophical exploration of duration and how to capture it or a seemingly random correlation of past events; the images carry out the same action of free association. Interested in time and processes of selective historicization, Basim Magdy asks what will be made of us when we are looked at from the future and what artifacts remain to tell our stories?
