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.
Realms of Hyperreal 1, 2018
Khaled Hafez
Mixed media on canvas
300 x120 cm (diptych)
