Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed

16 Sep-14 Oct 2017

Overview

Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed's powerful drawings are at once a satire of her generation in Vienna (she was born in 1993) and a deeper study of the human condition, a painful moral comedy, with death as a recurring subject. They are dense with incident and dense with allusion: to music, film, literature and art – as well as to anatomy and medicine. Baroque and Symbolist imagery combine with contemporary references. All this, alongside a Viennese knowledge of western and eastern European genres, gives her analysis of life breadth and acuteness.