The Makeshift Body

Hardback, 28 × 23 cm | 11 × 9 in, 176 pages Executed in a range of media, including densely layered painting, sculpture, installation, sound, video and performance, this is the first monograph on the work of contemporary artist Mandy El-Sayegh. This book includes critical essays, conversations with the artist, and photography documenting her exhibitions, performances and studio processes. El-Sayegh likens her exploratory, observational process to the occurrence of contemporary social and political events, which unfold in highly chaotic and often disturbing ways. Justifications or explanations typically appear after the fact, devised to impose order on an inherently subjective and incomplete set of social, cultural and political processes. Through her work, she aims to remove the veil of these superimposed structures and reveal the intricacies of growth and decay as they happen in real time. Elements such as found fragments, pages of the Financial Times and imagery from advertisements,