Installation in the San Lorenzo Archaeological Museum

Cremona Contemporanea Art Week, Italy

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Nevine Mahmoud creates sculptures that are tangible manifestations of the creative process itself. Her works are syntheses of diverse elements that, when combined, embody the multiplicity of human emotions and desires, rather than referencing predefined meanings. Beyond the seductive aesthetics of her surfaces and materials, Nevine Mahmoud's works reveal an underlying archetypal system: the essence of her artistic practice lies in the ability to evoke emotions, often unsettling ones. The choice of subjects for her sculptures is guided by an instinctive intuition, based on the intrinsic qualities of the objects. Indeed, Mahmoud questions how a certain object affects her body and psyche, seeking to capture the flow of sensations that emerge from her interaction with it. Through a self-evident process, Mahmoud seeks to convey the complexity of human sensations, between anxiety and eroticism, fragility and violence, attraction and estrangement. His works thus become powerful vehicles for exploring the vast range of desires that define the human experience.

Mahmoud's stone deer writhe in postures of evident vulnerability, placing the subject midway between pleasure and pain. Displaying a common symbol of childhood and innocence, these creatures appear naked, unfinished, defenseless, partly because of the artist's choice to use a cold, hard material, which leaves the animals immortalized in a sort of ecstatic rigor mortis. In these works, Mahmoud seems to embellish anguish, while questioning the relationship between vulnerability and abandonment, perhaps to reflect on the sensual ecstasy found in agony. Josefine (looking back) is the first sculpture Nevine Mahmoud created in Carrara.

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