From Clay Animism to Bandung Aesthetic: The Art of Sayeda Massak, Samira Hosny, Yehya Bu Seri', Bodour Girgis

Maxa Zoller examines the terracotta sculptures of Egyptian artists Sayeda Massak, Samira Hosny, Yehya Bu Seri’ and Bodour Girgis as an entry point to a critical investigation of the historiography of Egyptian modern art. For Zoller, these works cut across modernist divides of realism and medium essentialism, and articulate an ‘aesthetic of thirdness’.