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Huda Lutfi works like an urban archeologist, constantly digging up found objects as loaded fragments of history. She then re-packages them using bricolage and collage as interceptive strategies. Thus recognizable objects, figures, icons are hijacked, re-contextualized and made to tell a different story.
Playing on public memory and a shared iconography, Lutfi somehow flattens cultural timelines by coming up with such figures as a mummified Oum Kalthoums. Her focus has been on the historical representation of the female form, and how it translates into the everyday. Working with the form of dolls in their various contexts, Lutfi explores the multiple roles of women within visual culture: as active producers of it and depicted symbols within it.
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Egyptian Baroque, 2006, glass and wood, 60 x 150 cm |
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