Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2024 Presentation — When the Sea Level Rises: Hypothesis for an Imagined Future by Marianne Fahmy

Synopsis

In her presentation, Marianne shares her ways of imagining a future to come for a city that is threatened by the rise of the sea level. Her research involves working with marginalised peoples, and co-creating space for their narratives, to question our present and recreate potential future narratives. For more details, visit here.

About Marianne Fahmy

Marianne is an artist living and working in Alexandria, whose works span film and installation. Through her video, photography, sculpture, and mixed media works, she takes on the role of a new historicist, using parafiction to deconstruct the social and political issues of the present. She is recipient of the 2024 Prince Claus Mentorship Award: Cultural & Artistic Responses to the Environmental Crisis. Her work has previously been shown at the Sharjah Biennale (2023), 7th Yokohama Triennial (2020), Manifesta 13 (2020), Towner International (2020), Mediterranea 19 Young Artists Biennale (2020), Havana Biennale (2019), Dakar Biennale (2018), and Gherdeina Biennale, Italy, (2024).