Domestic Tourism I: Felucca

Maha Maamoun Egyptian

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Felucca (edition 4/6) presents a touristic image of an eponymous sail boat plying the Nile. In the background, we glimpse a vivid, carnivalesque landscape of signboards celebrating then-President Mubarak. Images of green fields, a luxury car, and a haloed president saluting passersby ring an artificial island created in the center of the Nile. The latter’s emphatic falsity is true to life; however, the scene is bathed in incongruent, cinematic lighting.

Domestic Tourism I: Felucca, Maha Maamoun (Egyptian, born 1972), Chromogenic print

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