Something is about to explode: Zayan and Abedeen break out in a rhapsodic percussive dialogue, seizing the power of a popular life on the brink of implosion. Charged and charging, the deliberate performance in the absence of their instruments transpose pathos and agency. The video has best been described as ‘part-tribute, part-elegy’ to Egypt’s population of eighty million people.

A near-documentary take of the Giza Zoo, opened to the public in 1891. An early jewel of modernization in Egypt's capital city, the zoo marks a nostalgic last vestige of the agricultural hinterlands that once surrounded Cairo. The transformation of public space...

On text, love, recording and writing, Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright features an exchange between two lovers over the course of an evening. A story of longing unfolds between two people, on the last sunset of the millennium, encapsulating the intensity of a private conversation, the unsettling nature of communicating, approaching understanding, and what is implied within a script.

Issa invents a character that describes a city, which is never named. The video, composed of the narrator’s text and public domain landscape images, emerges from the artist’s attempt to describe a personal relationship and a set of observations of a familiar location, searching...