Attia and El-Sayegh share a deep interest in the underlying forces that shape our contemporary world—from the histories of colonialism, to the metastasis of the attention economy, to the impact of the infinite scroll on visual culture. Disfigurations places their work in dialogue to explore these ideas through fragmentation, part-to-whole relationships, and elements of fusion and synthesis, especially suture and collage.
Conceptualized as a visual conversation between El-Sayegh and Attia, Disfigurations brings the two artists together for the first time, presenting new sculptures from Attia’s acclaimed Mirrors and Masks series alongside El-Sayegh’s image-rich, densely layered canvases.
