Mandy El-Sayegh works across diverse media to examine how social, cultural and political orders are formed and deconstructed in the contemporary world.

In this series, El-Sayegh layers the painting with blended pigments of vibrant reds, purples and iridescence, the tones of which are connected to bodily tissues, reflecting El-Sayegh’s interest in anatomy, and the idea of re-inserting of the body into the abstraction of the painted plane. The use of iridescence creates a shifting perspective; and screen-printed renderings of maps, tyre-marks and grid lines invite consideration of the political ‘bodies’ of nation states, and the symbolic structures which define and control them.