I will go to Paradise by Youssef Nabil

Youssef Nabil, The End, 2007, Hand coloured silver gelatin print, 50 x 70 cm

Youssef Nabil, Self portrait Hollywood, 2008, Hand coloured silver gelatin print, 30 x 40 cm

Youssef Nabil's third solo exhibition, "I will go to Paradise" at The Third Line refers to a misplaced nostalgia of a past era in his signature re-appropriation of the hand colouring technique of black and white photographs.

I will go to Paradise encapsulates loose references to selected moments from the artist’s life. Nabil views his life as a movie and the captured images are certainly cinematic in their compositions and allusions to narrative.

Growing up in the city of Cairo, the birth place of Middle Eastern cinema, Nabil was intrigued with the golden age of its magic and glamour. His works draws inspiration from his childhood memories of black and white films filled with elegance and melodrama, but also follow a clear lineage of the tradition of the studio photograph. Through using the age old technique of hand coloured photographs, Nabil constructs scenes that are both beautiful and conflicting, creating images of longing, loss, sensuality, sex and death.

Exhibition dates: 12th March - 9th April 2009

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