Realms of Hyperreal 1, 2018 

Realms of Hyperreal 1, 2018 

Khaled Hafez

Mixed media on canvas

300 x120 cm (diptych)

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 Realms of Hyperreal 1, 2018