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.
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Bodies as markers and makers of change. Desirable and desiring, abject, vulnerable, undignified, flawed and fragile, caught between the mundane and the mythological, the domestic and the supernatural. What shines through are the social, political and emotional ramifications of corporeal transgression.
