Mealema - Fifi Abdou, Cairo, 2000

Details

YOUSSEF NABIL (Egyptian, b. 1972)
Mealema - Fifi Abdou, Cairo, 2000
hand-coloured silver gelatin print
45 3/8 x 29½in. (115 x 75cm.)
Executed in 2008, this work is from an edition of three

Provenance

The Third Line, Dubai.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

O. Zaya, Youssef Nabil I Won't Let You Die, Ostfildern 2008 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 67).
S. Eigner, Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran, London 2010 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 118).
H. U. Obrist & M. Abramovic, Youssef Nabil, Paris 2013 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 123).

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Lot Essay

'I first wanted to make work inspired by the old Egyptian black-and-white films, because people were more beautiful in black and white and I wanted to still show that. Then later on I had the need to see my work in colour, so I decided to hand colour my black-and-white photographs using the same old photography technique, which would still keep this old cinematic feeling that I liked in black and white. I also wanted my work to be seen as paintings.'
(Youssef Nabil, in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, London, 27 April 2012 in J. Rouart (ed.), Youssef Nabil, Paris 2013, p. 29).

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