Mandy El-Sayegh’s artistic practice refers, among other things, to many years of research that permeates her work in its variety of forms and media – that of the body in its many facets: in society, in science, in eroticism, as a metaphor, as a pathology, as a recalcitrant object.

The Malaysian-born artist is fascinated by the status and authority given to different bodies – not least manifested by their origin and the respective cultural and sociological inscriptions that go with it.

Likewise, El-Sayegh views her individual artworks as bodies, each consisting of disparate fragments, with her task of always bringing them together into a coherent whole.

In doing so, she draws her material from an extensive archive, an essential prerequisite for her space-related work, which is oriented towards numerous media such as sculpture, painting and performance.

Features an interview with the artist by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Mandy El-Sayegh was nominated for the Max Mara Art Prize for Woman in 2017.

Published on occasion of the following exhibitions:

‘Mandy El-Sayegh: In-Session’, 9 Jun – 30 Nov 2023, Tichy Ocean Foundation, Zurich

‘Mandy El-Sayegh: Enfleshing’, 11 Feb – 16 Apr 2023, Overbeck-Gesellschaft in Lübeck.

English and German text.