P4 / project content — Manar Moursi

Two parts of this work were exhibited in 2022 at La Verdi, the studio of artist Ana Gallardo, as part of the group exhibition Asunto de Familia in Mexico City. The exhibition was co-curated by artists Aimée Suárez Netzahualcóyotl and Maria Méndez. Supported by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, the project was initially developed during a residency at Union Docs in 2019 and is still ongoing.

Blue-Black

Rivering Together – Publication

Funeral at the Edge of Drought (WIP)

Blue-Black Liver

Rivering Together – Publication

Funeral at the Edge of Drought (WIP)

Rivering Together – Publication

Summer, God, Rain

Rainbow Moon

Mist Me: Me Mist

Two Stones and Heaven is a Fountain in the Garden of Your Veins

Everything That Remains to be Lived

Dismemberment: Night in Mourning

Rivering Together

Palm Beach

A Light, A Loudspeaker, A Tower

The Loudspeaker and the Tower at TSV

The Loudspeaker and the Tower Zine

The Loudspeaker and the Tower at KAG

Mud, Minarets, and Meaningless Events

Stairway to Heaven

Storm Over Cairo

Mummy Issues Part I: I am not your Mummy

Mummy Issues: Part II: Platanos y Momias

Wonderbox

You can’t Get Blood From A Stone

Bermuda Chairs, In the Sidewalk Salon

Sidewalk Salon: 1001 Street Chairs in Cairo

Sidewalk Salon at Pikaro

Sidewalk Salon at Onomatopoee

Parks Under Siege

My country is not a suitcase, and I am not a traveler

Kodak Green Oasis

Transient Utopias

Ladders and Ladders

Making "Sense": In Search of Lost Weather

Courtyard House

Deliciosa

Evaporative Clay, Palm Crate Canopy Kit

S-Table

Air, Earth, and Sky

Bamiyan Cultural Center

Mapping Cairo

Off The Gireed

Q House

Sand Sedge House

Science City

Screen House

Small Talk

You Can’t Get Blood From A Stone Cairo, La Verdi, Mexico City, 2022

You Can't Get Blood from a Stone is an autofictional video essay drawn from a deeply personal archive of emails and exchanges between myself and an ex-lover, spanning nine years and beginning during Egypt's 2011 uprising. These emails, which form the voiceover, touch on a wide range of themes—relationships, family dynamics, personal growth, cultural and political reflections, and the process of coping with grief and loss. Through these intimate exchanges, the work reveals how the personal and political intersect, particularly within women's narratives, and confronts issues such as gender discrimination, social expectations, and gender-based violence. The visuals, primarily captured on my phone during those years, are layered with the voiceover to create a rich interplay of dissonance and consonance—moments of tension and harmony. The dissonance reflects the contradictions and emotional complexities in the relationship, while consonance brings together moments of connection and clarity. Together, the voiceover and visuals explore the fluid intersections of memory, identity, and socio-political reality, drawing connections between past and present, the individual and the collective, the intimate and the public.

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