Jonathas de Andrade works with photography, installation, and film to document the shifting terrain of private narratives within larger social spaces, exploring such themes as failed modernity and cultural amnesia.
In his work, the act of photographing represents a crucial creative tool, but also acts as a historic device; a medium spanning fiction and document that makes possible the dialogue between action, research, architecture, and state census. Exploring social and cultural conditions of place, de Andrade employs investigative processes such as researching, mapping and surveying - using historical and archaeological documents and found artefacts to gently weave new fictions. His work is nonetheless about individual memory - personal experiences that start to resemble a collective one.
Talk with an artist will be held on Sunday 9 October at 7 pm at the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hussein El-Memar Pasha Street, Downtown Cairo.
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