mandyelsayegh

⠀ 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝗘𝗹-𝗦𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗴𝗵 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅: 𝑾𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, (𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒍) 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝗶𝗻 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗡𝗼𝘄 >> 𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗶𝘀𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲.𝗮𝗿𝘁 ⠀ Mandy El-Sayegh (b. 1985), Selangor, Malaysia is a London-based artist with Palestinian and Chinese heritage, whose practice is rooted in assemblage. Executed in a wide range of media – including densely layered paintings, sculpture, and installation, as well as performance, sound and video – El-Sayegh’s works investigate the formation and break-down of systems of order, be they bodily, linguistic or political. Recent presentations of her work include ‘Otra Orilla / Another Shore’, The Gateway, Abu Dhabi (2024); Art Basel Parcours, Basel (2024); Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Kunstverein Lübeck (2023); ‘MOVE 2022: Culture club—Corps collectifs’, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022); the Biennale Matter of Art, Prague, (2022); and the traveling exhibition ‘British Art Show 9’, (2021-2022). Her monograph ‘The Makeshift Body’ was published in 2023 by Black Dog Press. El-Sayegh’s work is in public and private collections, including LACMA, Los Angeles; Tate, London; and Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah. Original painting: oil and acrylic on canvas with silkscreened elements, 65 x 38 in / 165 x 97 cm. Photo: Damian Griffiths. Courtesy the artist. > @mandyelsayegh #MandyElSayegh #MandyEl-Sayegh ⠀ // ⠀ 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚. A collection of 77 commissioned posters by artists, musicians, writers & voices from around the world, standing in solidarity with P@lest !ne ⠀ All proceeds to @ajyalfoundation , dedicated to rehabilitation of children in G@z @ & supporting displaced communities throughout the g3n0c!de These posters are designed to be torn out Hang them. Keep them. Carry them And always, always, Remember P@lest !ne ⠀ 𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗢𝗥 @ayamousawi 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗗 @ahmedeldin 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗥 @saqibooks 𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡 @heyporterposter ⠀ #LoveisResistance 🇵🇸

Coming soon at the Depot—the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of @mandyelsayegh El-Sayegh brings together various disciplines in her art: from painting and collage to video and performance. She will transform a Depot gallery into an all-encompassing installation featuring new work inspired by our collection. El-Sayegh’s exhibition, ‘Figure, Field, Grid’, is the first in a new series: Depot Solo. #DepotSolo is made possible by @ammodoart A must see. From 01.11.2025 - 08.03.2026. ⓘ boijmans.nl/depotsolo 📸 (1) Mandy El-Sayegh. Photo: Abtin Eshraghi. Courtesy the artist. (2) Mandy El-Sayegh in collaboration with Alice Walter, XXX KISS CROSS KILL, installation view, Kummelholmen, Stockholm, 2025. Photo: Damian Griffiths. Courtesy the artist and @kummelholmen (3) Mandy El-Sayegh, Body Promise, installation view, Art Basel Parcours, 2024. Photo: Jon Lowe. Courtesy the artist, @lehmannmaupin and @thaddaeusropac . #MuseumBoijmansVanBeuningen #Depot #Rotterdam #MandyElSayegh #ContemporaryArt #AmmodoArt #ThaddaeusRopac #LehmannMaupin

Join us this Thursday for Mandy El-Sayegh – ‘This is a Sign: Notes on Assembly’ - The Showroom Mural Commission 2025-26 opening preview 6.30-8.30pm. Drawing on a wide range of sources and working with participants based in The Showroom’s neighbourhood, El-Sayegh has assembled fragments of personal and collective histories, questioning whether aesthetics can be used as a bridge for communication. Key to her investigation is the question: how can aesthetic freedom exist without political freedom? And who has the right to abstraction? All welcome! 💫 For more information go to link in bio ⬆️ The Showroom Mural Commission is generously funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation @paulhamlynfoundation @mandyelsayegh #mural #sign #assembly #newcommission #freedom

20 years later

minimalism

In theory

A dual-sensorial environment by Malaysian artist @mandyelsayegh built entirely on-site at Brutus — The Body (2025) Spread across two levels, the space echoes elements of El-Sayegh’s studio: unfinished paintings, scraps of material, fragments of news stories, and sound and video merge into a complete sensory experience. Dissecting the machinery of mass culture, El-Sayegh explores the visual and textual circulation of painful socio-political events and abuses of power. New video works feature movement artist @yuma.sy a long-term collaborator of El-Sayegh. Collaged footage captures their ongoing movement-based research into power, subjugation, and the erotic as a site for reclaiming agency. Explore the layers of bold statements at EVERYTHING IS TRUE – NOTHING IS PERMITTED On view until 15 June Curated by @kendell_geers At Brutus in collaboration with @apoliticalorg

POP . . . Biggest digital censorship in history So, how do we talk now? #GraphicTee @kendell_geers @kentansg @kindregards_archie @aa__walter

Don’t miss Mandy El-Sayegh’s new multimedia installation ‘Body Promise’ in the Parcours sector of @ArtBasel . 📍 Clara Shopping, 26 Griefengasse, Basel @MandyElSayegh ’s new site-specific work transforms two spaces in the partially vacant Clarastrasse shopping center, creating an immersive environment through printed matter on the walls and floors and several large-scale paintings. El-Sayegh is staging performances in the installation over the course of the fair on Wednesday, June 12 and Friday, June 14 (both at 7:15 PM). Curated by Stefanie Hessler, Director of New York’s Swiss Institute, the Art Basel Parcours initiative organizes public art projects outside of the fair. The performance that appears at the end of this video is ‘Strike, posed’ (2024). Performed by Mandy El-Sayegh, Score: Lily Oakes. Projection editing: Foreign Body Productions. Video: Jon Lowe. Costume: Sofia Sanchez ‘Body Promise’ is presented by #LehmannMaupin, New York, Seoul, and London, and Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London, Paris, Salzburg, and Seoul. #MandyElSayegh #ArtBasel #Parcours

Excerpt reading at Tate from the beautiful memoir: The Medium by @aa__walter Publishes by @bookworksuk Pre order here .uk/publishing/shop/the-medium/ @annapigeaux @katrina_palmer_a @jessicaskwok

. . . . Last Autumn Freize London coincided with 7th October. These words by @broomehenry speak about the work there 5years ago on Search terms/Operations Chilling and on point. Link in bio ..... pinks and browns, deep reds like clotting blood, a mark of a crime; azure blue and turquoise, the color of the sky and sea, separated in color fields, setting off a longing for space, the freedom to travel, somehow out of reach, closed off. On the surface on the canvases, El-Sayegh layers newspaper cut-outs, torn scraps of paper, rippled latex that reminds me of blisters that have been saturated by hot bathwater, annotated proofs of a text on psychological theory, a map of sprawling roads and French villages, conjuring the terrior, which has an ungraspable meaning that supposedly can’t be described. It’s a feeling. The paintings, the printed words, the colors, run out over onto the gallery booth’s thin partition wall, disrupting the boundary between the pictorial surface and the fair’s architecture. What is for sale? Just the canvas? The painting on the wall can’t be detached, nor can it ever be really replicated, at least not exactly the same. The fair lighting is always blindingly bright. A desert of white. By the end of the week, my eyes dry up and the lids become red and swollen. I have to squint to focus on short distances. I find it hard to hold eye contact with people. I read a quote from the artist: “I always want to eradicate, or mitigate, the starkness of a white space. Bringing that warmth and activity and movement from the studio, where I make the work, into the space that people can feel that activity.” In the hypercapitalist space of the fair, there are paintings everywhere, tangible commodities, unique, one-of-a-kind objects invested with the artist’s singular touch. Easy to trade, they can be put up on the walls of collectors’ townhouses. All the paintings become indistinguishable, and yet it’s here I encounter an unmistakable pain and fury that can’t be bought or contained, that cannot be denied, that must be spoken. Link in bio for full article #henryBroome