Basim Magdy
Basim Magdy is an artist and filmmaker born in Assiut, Egypt.
His work appeared recently in solo and group exhibitions at museums such as Frac Bretagne, Rennes; KM21 Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague; M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux; MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MAXXI Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome; The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Centre Pompidou, Paris. His films are in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France FRAC Ile-de-France (le Plateau), Paris; MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; Arter, Istanbul and Mathaf: Museum of Modern Arab Art, Doha mong others.
His films were screened at Tate Modern, Locarno Film Festival, New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival among others.
Join Ilona Jurkonytė, curator of the programme Ultramarine: The Sea as Political Space and Artistic Director of the Kaunas International Film Festival, Lithuania, for an informal discussion.
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A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in
her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like
these have been carried out in Japan for over 2000 years by the Ama-San, that literally translates “women of the sea”.
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An essay in five parts, Evaporating Borders offers a series of vignettes, poetically guided by the filmmaker’s curious eye and personal reflections. Through the people she encounters along the way, the film dissects the experience of asylum seekers in Cyprus : A PLO activist and exile from Iraq is denied asylum within 15 minutes; neo-nazi fundamentalists roam the streets in an attack on Muslim migrants; activists and academics organize an antifascist rally and clash with the neo-nazis; 195 migrants drown in the Mediterranean.
