Manar Moursi: The Loudspeaker and the Tower
Co-presented by Trinity Square Video and South
Asian Visual Arts Centre as part of Scotiabank
Contact Photography Festival, Toronto
May 3–June 8, 2019
The four works that compose Manar Moursi’s exhibition at Trinity Square Video offer varied simulations of Cairene public space. Like a felucca on the Nile, the neon blue, green and red lights of the sculptural work that is (2019) project their shadows onto the polished wooden floor. The distorted call to prayer emanating from the documentary (2019) and crackling mechanical sounds of a zoetrope entitled (2019) recreate a Cairene cacophony of relentless, clashing sounds. In the exhibition as in real life, the low-income towns along
