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Malak Yacout's work tends to take the form of (often futile but no less meaningful) research practices and explores questions at the intersection of meaning, language, and a potential agency of things.

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Her practice tends to be research-based, on two levels. On the one level, the process of her art-making relies on artistic research. On another level, the subject of her art tends to look at research as an aesthetic in-and-of-itself. As such, her practice has been shaped by a perhaps foolish search for meaning in unlikely places, regardless of any expectation of success or failure, and imaginative nonetheless.

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Thus, her work spans a variety of forms, oscillating between the material (in slightly minimalist fashion) and the performative, and yet there is a clear central interest in a language of objects, and therefore the dialogues with people, objects and spaces, all potentially living, agential, political beings that speak to things we cannot - or will not - speak ourselves.

For the past three years, her work has been gravitating towards the artist book as a medium that is simultaneously material and immaterial. As a mobile object, the book secretly lends itself to public performativity: Shared, annotated, corrected, and shared again. Lost collective memories can thus be reimagined and shared again and again in a larger collective dance, however invisible and liminal the public space of book-sharing may be.

Malak Yacout has a BA from the American University in Cairo 2015, completed exchange semesters at Bard College and at Parsons, the New School, New York, and participated at the MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. She was also a researcher at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, helping redefine the institution at a time of pressure, rediscovering and maintaining its archives and collecting research to help save its historic building from demolition. Exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Townhouse and group exhibitions at 3. Berliner Herbstsalon, AUC’s Sharjah Gallery, and Medrar. Her works have been featured in Flash Art, Mada Masr, and German newspapers and won two Roznama art prizes. She has been awarded a residecy in Germany, and is currently working on a residency at the Museo delle Civiltá in Rome.

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Solo Exhibitions

2018

2017

Dialogue with 10 Nabrawy, Townhouse First Floor Gallery

Temporal Semiotics, Townhouse Factory

Group Exhibitions

2023

2022

2021

2020

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

The Valley of Walls, funded by Apexart, Cairo

Whispers of Adaptation, The Upside Space, Cairo (Online)

Museo Della Opacità, Museo Delle Civiltà, Rome

Medrx, Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival, Cairo

Retreat, ACC Galerie, Weimar

Viorama, Medrar Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cairo

Extraction, SOMA Gallery, Cairo

A Crack As A Sign ... of Retreat Into Fiction, Roznama 8, Cairo

With Doors Closed, Artists Go Viral , Medrar Gallery (Online)

A Crack As A Sign ... of Unmappable Pain, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo

CorpoRealities, PH21 Contemporary Photography Gallery, Budapest

Nothing Vanishes Everything Transforms, Manial Palace & Art D'Egypte, Cairo

What Do You Mean, Here We Are? The Mosaic Rooms, London

3. Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater & Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin

Summaery 2017 Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar

8th Cairo Video Festival Institut Francais, Cairo

(Un)Sounds of Buchenwald Momentum Gallery, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin

(Un)Sounds of Buchenwald Gedenkstätte Buchenwald, Weimar

Roznama 5 Medrar Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cairo

Mohamed Abla Competition for Painting, Greek Campus Gallery, Cairo

Tracing Our Dragon's Smell AUC Sharjah Gallery, Cairo

BLINK II Medrar Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cairo

BLINK I AUC Sharjah Gallery, Cairo

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Email

malak@yacout.org