Basim Magdy

Born 1977 in Assiut, Egypt

 

Basim Magdy considers the choice of titles for his work critical. They add another layer of confusion to what his work depicts. As in the drawings and paintings, he uses layering strategies in the installations, but the way they are structured is different from that of the drawings. The artist keeps the confusion and humor by incorporating small details and often unrelated objects of daily life, collected (or created) and placed in specific arrangements to make believable a situation that hovers between fiction and absurd reality.



Basim Magdy, Learning about Geometry in a UFO Park, 2007, Oil on paper, 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches