BASIM MAGDY – RENEGADE DREAMS HANGING FROM THE CLOUDS
2020-11-09While Basim Magdy’s film NEW ACID centers on the world of pure words, with chats as the new reality, Magdy’s paintings also focus on surreal stories and alternative realities, dealing with the extinction of the world, animal species that never existed, and past predictions of the apocalypse. What became of the prophecies that never actually happened? What if you – and the three lemurs – arrive at the gateway to the other world and find it doesn’t open? Driven by the urge to escape, Basim Magdy views the world as an archive with many openings but also a number of dead ends . Rather than focusing merely on what has been, he also explores what might have been and what never was.
Opposite – Several Molecules of Future Liberties Manifesting as Baby Miracles (2020)
Exhibition runs through to November 22nd, 2020
König Galerie
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin
