[Excerpt from two-channel installation]

A double-screen video of a Dodge Ram four-wheeler; and a man in a strange mask, who tries to build a wall from liquid tar.

Wael Shawky (b. 1971 in Alexandria) lives and works in Alexandria, Egypt and Philadelphia, USA.

In 2010, he founded MASS Alexandria, an independent nonprofit school for contemporary art, that offers spaces for art practices, interdisciplinary research, and critical thinking education. His work has been showcased at major international exhibitions such as M Leuven Museum, Brussels, Belgium (2022); The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, USA (2021); The Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE (2020); The Polygon, Vancouver, Canada (2020); ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (2018); Sfeir-Semler Hamburg, Germany (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Yinchaun, China (2017); Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (2016); Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy (2016); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2016); Fondazione Merz, Zurich, Switzerland (2016); MATHAF, Doha, Qatar (2015); MoMA PS1, New York, USA (2015); 15th Istanbul Biennale, Turkiye (2015); Sfeir-Semler Beirut, Lebanon (2015); SALT, Istanbul, Turkiye (2014); K20 Dusseldorf, Germany (2014–15); Here & Elsewhere, The New Museum, New York, USA (2014); Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (2013-14); Re:emerge, Sharjah Biennial, UAE (2013); Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany (2012); KW Contemporary Art Institute, Berlin, Germany (2012); 9th Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2012); Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2011); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (2011); and Sfeir-Semler Beirut, Lebanon (2010).