Realms of Hyperreal 2, 2018

Realms of Hyperreal 2, 2018

Khaled Hafez

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 2, 2018Realms of Hyperreal 2, 2018