The New Social Environment#796
Mandy El-Sayegh: The Amateur
Featuring El-Sayegh and Chloe Stagaman, with Emily Martin
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Artist Mandy El-Sayegh joins Rail Director of Programs Chloe Stagaman for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Emily Martin.
In this talk
Visit Mandy El-Sayegh: The Amateur, on view at Lehmann Maupin through April 29, 2023 →
Mandy El-Sayegh
Mandy El-Sayegh’s highly process-driven practice is rooted in an exploration of material and language. Executed in a wide range of media, including densely layered paintings, sculpture, installation, diagrams, and sound and video, El-Sayegh’s work investigates the formation and break-down of systems of order, be they bodily, linguistic, or political. Through simple, repetitive patterns such as a hand-painted grid or geometric molds, formal and narrative synthesis occurs that is not consciously intended or anticipated. Solo and two-person exhibitions of El-Sayegh’s work have been organized at Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, South Korea (2022), UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA (2022), and elsewhere, and is held in many private and public collections.
Chloe Stagaman
Chloe Stagaman is a Brooklyn-based curator. She is Director of Programs at the Brooklyn Rail, where she works on the journal’s weekday conversation series The New Social Environment.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Emily Martin reading.
Emily Martin
Emily Martin is a writer and teacher from Brooklyn. Her most recent chapbook is called Dependence, the Joistrix / How you are made and it was published by Hiding Press in 2023.
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