Marianne Fahm example, laws of ruins, detail, 2024
Join us for the final screening of the series from the live-action of the land , curated by Angelina Radakovi ' s video from Mosaic Rooms in London.
Thursday, 15. in January 2026, you are at 18. hours at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova are invited to watch three short films by the Egyptian artist Marianne Fahm , who currently lives and works in Alexandria.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with the artist Marianne Fahm <url>, which will be hosted by Anja Banko , film critic and editor of the film program at the Slovenian Cinematheque. Fahm mod will join us remotely, online.
Covering everything from video creation to installations, Marianne Fahm's work unfolds in the expression of the notion of fabulation as introduced by Gilles Deleuze and F'ulcli ' Guattari, except that the artist's political optics are radically different – she is committed to a democratic approach and layering of images that she uses to build her worlds. Through an ecological and decolonialist lens, her work raises the question of memory and creates new – alternative, utopian, yet unusually homely – possible futures of her native space – Alexandria-from forgotten artifacts, archival images and sound recordings.
The Program opens the short film What can come (2019), which imagines the consequences of floods predicted due to sea level rise and the sinking of the Nile Delta in Egypt. The starting point for the second film, Land of Wonder carpets (2020), is the diaries of an Egyptian oceanographer from the Thirties of the last century, torn between a fascination with the West and pride in his oriental origins. The third film , the laws of ruins (2024), explores the history of water in the context of a parafictional paradigm, putting water reservoirs in the role of possible symbols of resistance and transformation.
Marianne Fahm Mod (1992) lives and works in Alexandria, Egypt. Her practice encompasses a variety of media, including film and installation. She has a degree in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Alexandria University and joined the MASS Ale Modelandria Independent Art Program in 2016. Since then, her works have been featured in numerous exhibition venues and events, which include the MA amici in Rome, the Dak'art Biennale in Dakar (2018), 7. Yokohama Triennale (2020), Manifesta 13 in Marseille (2020), Sharjah Biennale in UAE (2023), Bozar Fine Arts Center in Brussels (2023), Museum of European and Mediterranean civilizations in Marseille (2023), Contemporar-Art Arts Center in Ohio (2023), Art Basel Statement Section in Basel (2024) and art e 2024). Her films have been screened at, among others, the Kino der Kunst Film Festival (2017), the Museum of Contemporary Art, N Animatrnberg (2017), and the Sharjah Film Festival (2021). In 2021, she was awarded the Prince Claus Fund Seed a Contacard award, and in recent years, several grants to support her artistic practice.
Anja Banko (1992) is a film critic and pedagogue, currently working as an editor of the film programme at the Slovenian Cinematheque. She actively co-creates projects such as the autumn film school, the International Symposium of film criticism and theory at the Slovenian Cinematheque, Ekran's Film Critics ' Circle to the last word, she is a member of the programme team of the International Festival of experimental audiovisual practices V-F-Entertainment Ljubljana, she also participates in the festivals Animateka, Kino Otok, etc.
Marianne Fahmy , Zakoni ruševin , detajl, 2024
Pridružite se nam na zadnji projekciji iz serije Iz živega utripa dežele , ki jo kurira Angelina Radaković iz Mosaic Rooms v Londonu.
V četrtek, 15. januarja 2026, ste ob 18. uri v Muzeju sodobne umetnosti Metelkova vabljeni k ogledu treh kratkih filmov egiptovske umetnice Marianne Fahmy , ki trenutno živi in ustvarja v Aleksandriji.
Projekciji bo sledil pogovor z umetnico Marianne Fahmy, ki ga bo vodila Anja Banko , filmska kritičarka in urednica filmskega programa v Slovenski kinoteki. Fahmy se nam bo pridružila na daljavo, po spletu.
Delo Marianne Fahmy, ki zajema vse od video ustvarjanja do instalacij, se odvija v izrazu pojma fabulacije, kot ga uvedeta Gilles Deleuze in Félix Guattari, le da je umetničina politična optika radikalno drugačna – zavezana je k demokratičnemu pristopu in plastenju podob, ki jih uporablja v izgradnji svojih svetov. V svojem delu skozi ekološko in dekolonialistično lečo odpira vprašanje spomina in iz pozabljenih artefaktov, arhivskih podob ter zvočnih posnetkov ustvarja nove – alternativne, utopične, a nenavadno domačne – možne/ mogoče prihodnosti svojega domačega prostora – Aleksandrije.
Program odpira kratki film Kaj lahko pride (2019), ki si zamišlja posledice poplav, napovedanih zaradi dviga morske gladine in potopitve delte Nila v Egiptu. Izhodišče za drugi film, Dežela čudežnih preprog (2020), so dnevniki egiptovskega oceanografa iz tridesetih let prejšnjega stoletja, ki je bil razpet med fascinacijo nad Zahodom in ponosom na svoje orientalsko poreklo. Tretji film , Zakoni ruševin (2024), pa raziskuje zgodovino vode v okviru parafiktivne paradigme in pri tem postavlja vodne zbiralnike v vlogo možnih simbolov upora in preoblikovanja.
Marianne Fahmy (1992) živi in dela v Aleksandriji v Egiptu. Njena praksa obsega različne medije, vključno s filmom in instalacijo. Diplomirala je iz slikarstva na Fakulteti za likovno umetnost Univerze v Aleksandriji in se leta 2016 pridružila programu MASS Alexandria Independent Art Program. Od takrat so bila njena dela predstavljena v številnih razstaviščih in na prireditvah, med katerimi so MAXXI v Rimu, Bienale Dak'Art v Dakarju (2018), 7. Trienale v Jokohami (2020), Manifesta 13 v Marseillu (2020), Bienale v Šardži v ZAE (2023), Center za likovno umetnost Bozar v Bruslju (2023), Muzej evropskih in sredozemskih civilizacij v Marseillu (2023), Contemporary Arts Center v Ohiu (2023), Art Basel Statement Section v Baslu (2024) in festival Art Explora v Benetkah (2024). Njeni filmi so bili predvajani med drugim na filmskem festivalu Kino der Kunst (2017), v Muzeju sodobne umetnosti v Nürnbergu (2017) in na Filmskem festivalu v Šardži (2021). Leta 2021 je prejela nagrado Prince Claus Fund Seed Award, v zadnjih letih pa več nepovratnih sredstev za podporo njeni umetniški praksi.
Anja Banko (1992) je filmska kritičarka in pedagoginja, trenutno deluje kot urednica filmskega programa v Slovenski kinoteki. Aktivno soustvarja projekte, kot so Jesenska filmska šola, mednarodni simpozij filmske kritike in teorije v Slovenski kinoteki, Ekranov filmsko-kritiški krožek Do zadnje besede, je članica programske ekipe mednarodnega festivala eksperimentalnih avdiovizualnih praks V-F-X Ljubljana, sodeluje tudi pri festivalih Animateka, Kino Otok itd.