Olga's Notes
2013
Installation, 400 x 400 cm.
Materials: MDF wood
Collection: Courtesy of the artist.
Olga’s Notes takes as its starting point the Egyptian left-wing magazine Al Hilal (‘The Crescent’), published in the 1950s and ʼ60s, and important for its contributions to socialist theory and for its literary essays and translations. Published in a turbulent period of modernisation, the magazine reflects the ideological and social change that occurred at the time. To rethink the role of reading in the formation of subjectivity, and especially what people were allowed and encouraged to read, Arsanios has created a library for Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks that includes material relating to Al Hilal. This library is also the scene of a performance composed of excerpts from the magazine and other related texts.
