In these bold canvases, Hafez sets in motion a Pop topology of Pharaonic symbolism and capitalist mythology. Images from fashion advertising and health culture are ‘kidnapped’, in the artist’s words; digitally manipulated, blown-up and inserted into compositions the scale of Ancient Egyptian wall paintings. Signifiers cross time periods as well as cultures, and superheroes find each other across millennia.

Two Gods & Angels, 2017
Khaled Hafez
Mixed media on canvas
200 x 120 cm

