Domestic Tourism I: Felucca
Felucca (edition 4/6) presents a touristic image of an eponymous sail boat plying the Nile. In the background, we glimpse a vivid, carnivalesque landscape of signboards celebrating then-President Mubarak. Images of green fields, a luxury car, and a haloed president saluting passersby ring an artificial island created in the center of the Nile. The latter’s emphatic falsity is true to life; however, the scene is bathed in incongruent, cinematic lighting.
Artwork Details
- Title: Domestic Tourism I: Felucca
- Artist: Maha Maamoun (Egyptian, born Oakland, California, 1972)
- Date: 2005
- Medium: Chromogenic print
- Edition: 4/6
- Dimensions: 19 11/16 × 29 1/2 in. (50 × 74.9 cm)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Art Jameel Fund, 2018
- Object Number: 2018.84
- Rights and Reproduction: © Maha Maamoun
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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