Mahmoud Khaled
*1982
lives and works in Alexandria (Egypt)
mahmoud_17@yahoo.com

1996/1999 Independent studies, palace of Art appreciation, Sidi Gaber, Alexandria (EG)
1999/2004 BFA, faculty of Arts, Painting Department, Alexandria University.
2004 3 months seminar (SUFISM theological humaity trial-islamic & christian trial), Henri Polad - C .E. R. E. M. E. D. ,jesuit culture center, Alexandria.

2001 Cairo (EG), “Untitled 2001,2 ed NITAQ Festival of visual arts”, co-organized by galleries of contemporary art
2002 Cairo (EG), Mashrabia Gallery, “Untitled 2002”
2003 Cairo (EG), Palace Of Arts Gallery, Opera House, “She Likes Cairo And Cairo.......,"
15th Salon Of Young Artists (The Honour Prize)
2003 Cairo (EG), Mashrabia Gallery, “Little Boy's Gift”
2003 Alexandria (EG), "Black And White ", co-curated by Amr Hiba, Goethe Institute Cairo

Object:

“Student male moslem single”
100 copy for my personal card (including all my contacts) with the same design of the ID card. with the sharing data inbetween
Digital Montage, Digital print.
2004.

Statement

The identity card as an official voucher, represents the understanding and defined of the general rhetoric for my exsitentialist identity by abbreviated lingustic manner, its abridge the difference dimensions of the identity like History -Social class -Genealogy-Religion-Place-Gender and Time in words that might express a number of cultural structures.

This Official Identity Coinge which is conected to the persons in all thier life, usualy objects with the changing of thier identity understanding.

The project is a personal trial to asking about the relationship between the identity card as an official voucher and the personal card which is the people can make it by themselves and but in it all them personal data. the project transforming the card into a medium instead of dealing with it as definitive coinage for the identity , and stressing on the social important for words like "Male Muslim and Single". Also asking about the data which is have a possibility to changing, and the data which is must be defined from the social and general rhetoric.