Disco

2010 | Video, VHS | 5 minutes 30 seconds

Disco tells the story of the artists’ father, a disco-addict and a fashion designer who leaves his family to find work abroad, eventually becoming a film star in the Egyptian horror industry. This quickly spirals into a fiction, however, in which the father becomes Egyptian film star Mahmoud Yassin (who shares the artist’s family name). The interplay of image and text explores a generation’s fascination with celebrity, forging a story about abandonment, voyage, longing, and stardom.

Exhibition views - Nottingham Contemporary - photos by Stuart Whipps
Exhibition views - Akademie der Künste der Welt - photos by Alfred Jansen