Nevine Mahmoud

Nevine Mahmoud

BornNationalityBased In
1988BritishLos Angeles
Biography

Nevine Mahmoud creates luscious, abstracted sculptures of flowers, fruit, breasts and lips. Her work echoes the disembodied limbs sculpted by artists like Alina Szapocznikow and Louise Bourgeois, but with a pastel softness and liquid sensuality that is perhaps more akin to Georgia O’Keefe’s paintings. Although they glimmer and ooze as if made from syrup or hard candy, the sculptures are cast in calcite, alabaster and marble. The artist contrasts the cool and calculated solidity of stone with the warmth, softness and transmutability of body parts. Through her sculptures, Mahmoud subverts the male gaze and objectification of the female form historically favoured in the medium of stone sculpture. Positioning her sculptures in the gallery and tantalising the viewer with their tacticity, Mahmoud questions the ethics of touch and consent. By placing them on a literal pedestal, the works are granted their own agency. Again, playing with the contrast between hardness and softness, some sculptures – through their size and position – are provided visual dominance over the viewer, while others are fragile and delicate, an equally defiant modality. ...

Selected Artworks
Dismember
Nevine Mahmoud
Dismember, 2018
22.86 x 10.16 x 10.16cm
carved slide
Nevine Mahmoud
carved slide, 2019
29 x 76 x 42cm
Creation egg
Nevine Mahmoud
Creation egg, 2021
19.1 x 25.4 x 10.2cm
Perfect Orifice
Nevine Mahmoud
Perfect Orifice, 2020
50.8 x 50.8 x 50.8cm
Toy/Intruder
Nevine Mahmoud
Toy/Intruder, 2020
91.44 x 25.4cm
breast (bruise)
Nevine Mahmoud
breast (bruise), 2020
25.5 x 18 x 19cm
the marble fauna
Nevine Mahmoud
the marble fauna, 2021
22.9 x 45.7 x 12.7cm
Gallery Representation
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