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    Basim Magdy

    Jun 05, 2018 2 minutes
    Bruce Jenkins

    Over the past two decades, the Egyptian-born, Swiss-based artist Basim Magdy has developed an impressive multidisciplinary art practice that embraces painting, filmmaking, photography, and installation. Language often surfaces as an element in his work, not only in the form of lengthy and, at times, enigmatic titles but also as textual components of the

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