Cairo Art Show: “Making a Man out of Him” at the Townhouse Gallery
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In her first solo exhibition in Egypt in several years,artist Huda Lutfi presents masculinity as a continuous and changing performance of power versus vulnerability. The work is multi-layered, playing, as Lutfi is known to do, with an array of collected objects and images from around the city, which meticulously give new meaning through carefully constructed compositions. In a work that introduces new technique and conceptual departures, Lutfi cleverly underpins socio-cultural forces defining masculine identity and exposes notions of restriction previously explored in her works on the feminine body.
Huda Lutfi is an Egyptian visual artist and cultural historian, who lives and works in Cairo. She received her Ph.D. in Arab Muslim Cultural History in l983 from McGill University, Montreal, and has been a practicing artist since the nineties.
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