Iman Issa

Material . 2010-2011

+ Iman Issa

Positioned within the interstices of physical reality and personal memory, the diverse practice of Egyptian artist Iman Issa continuously comes back to a critical question: "How does one visually evoke, communicate or signify one’s personal relationship to familiar places, events, and figures?"
This question is born of Issa’s profound skepticism, or disbelief in, the pragmatist function of words and images to represent the complex makeup of memory. In recent years, Issa has probed this question against the abstracting background and symbolic language of monuments and memorials.
Mercer Union

Material for a sculpture proposed as an alternative to a monument that has become an embarrassment to its people

Material for a sculpture recalling the destruction of a prominent public monument in the name of national resistance

Material for a sculpture commemorating an economist whose name now marks the streets and squares he once frequented

Material for a sculpture representing a monument erected in the spirit of defiance of a larger power

Material for a sculpture representing a bygone era of luxury and decadence