Lost referents of some attraction

Malak Helmy

In Malak Helmy's videos, sculptures and text pieces we encounter a strange and poetic world of material desire and contagious transformations. A pixel dreams of becoming a particle of dust, carbon wants to be diamond, and states of excitement move infectiously from mannequins to edifices, to humans, to images. This book brings together writings and images to explore Helmy's work - its "mutations of empathetic exchange" meandering bet- ween presence and absence, text and image, index and event.