Mohamed Abdelkarim (EGY)

“adornment and beautification of this worldly life”

Untitled
2012
Digital C-prints Dimensions variable

 

Mobius Design Studio is based in Dubai and run by Hadeyeh Badri, Hala Al-Ani and Riem Hassan. The founders graduated from the College of Art, Architecture and Design at the American University of Sharjah in 2009 and they have been balancing their time between studio research and making projects either commercial or independent ever since. Their latest design research explores both Typography and Spatial Design. Mobius is in constant pursuit of collaborations with like-minded designers to engage in diversed design processes and material studies. Mobius initiated and became the curator of the Design House at the Sikka Art Fair in Dubai (2013), a concentrated center for design that shows a selection of chosen works within a space that is carefully examined. The Design House intends to be a catalyst for people to explore design beyond the commercial boundary.

He had attended several international residency programs, among them were UNESCO-Aschberg at Dar Al-Mamun, Morocco (2013), and a residency at the Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan (2012). Mohamed Abdelkarim had exhibited in Egypt, Greece, and Europe, for example at the last 2013 Sharjah Biennalle, Thessaloniki Biennale 2011 and VIDEOAKT International Video Biennale at the Salt Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.

Mohamed Abdelkarim’s work, Untitled, is a series of images and texts, based on a classical in Arabic. He explored its sacred and religious dimension in order to engage to the idea of ‘Capitalism as Religion’ combined with cliché images of natural landscape which are often used as symbols in praising God’s omnibenevolence.

[column]Mohamed Abdelkarim 3“The four animals were considered to be gods that controlled
the world” [myth][/column][column]Mohamed Abdelkarim 2“And they said, this must be what faith is”[/column]