Grand Tour finissage: filmvisning av Domestic Tourism II

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62 mins, Arabic with English subtitles

Welcome to the closing of Amin Zouiten’s exhibition Grand Tour with a special screening of Maha Maamoun’s video work Domestic Tourism II. The screening will be presented within the exhibition space.

About Domestic Tourism II
Through a wide selection of scenes from Egyptian films that use the Pyramids as their backdrop, Domestic Tourism II looks at the various ways in which these historical icons are re-appropriated from the timelessness of the touristic postcard, and re-inscribed into the complex and dynamic narratives of the city.

“In Domestic Tourism I, I was interested in looking at some of the staple touristic images of Egypt, and intervening in them. I looked at some of the generic images of beaches, of the Nile, and of Cairo. But I did not use images of the pyramids or other ancient Egyptian monuments. Years later, I came across a scene in an Egyptian film, which I found very interesting for its use of the pyramids as a compositional element in the scene, or as a silent protagonist. This started me on a search into Egyptian cinema. I started looking for scenes in Egyptian cinema that were filmed in front of the pyramids, and building a little archive of the different types of scenes or “roles” that the pyramids played across years of cinema production in Egypt.”
— Maha Maamoun, 2009