White Grounds (Youth)
2022
Oil and mixed media on canvas with silkscreened collaged elements

Mandy El-Sayegh’s process-driven practice investigates systems of order, be they linguistic, bodily, political, or other. She combines unexpected imagery using silkscreen, painting, and collage to create heavily layered canvases. El-Sayegh begins each piece with found fragments, such as clippings collected from newspapers, advertisements, and notebooks. She then, in her words, “sutures” these parts together on the canvas, superimposing disparate materials to construct new narratives. She often incorporates pages from the Financial Times, due to its subject matter and flesh-like color. In her ongoing “Net-grid” series, she paints grids over silkscreened layers that are meant to symbolize the limitations and confines of language.