Thaddaeus Ropac London is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Mandy El-Sayegh, coinciding with London Gallery Weekend. Born in Selangor, Malaysia and based in London, El-Sayegh works across diverse media to examine how social, cultural and political orders are formed and deconstructed in the contemporary world. This exhibition follows her recent and highly acclaimed solo institutional exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and is concurrent with her Mural Commission at The Showroom, London, on view until 15 August 2026. In her practice – which encompasses large-scale painting, table vitrines, immersive installations, performances and videos –...
Thaddaeus Ropac London is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Mandy El-Sayegh, coinciding with London Gallery Weekend. Born in Selangor, Malaysia and based in London, El-Sayegh works across diverse media to examine how social, cultural and political orders are formed and deconstructed in the contemporary world. This exhibition follows her recent and highly acclaimed solo institutional exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and is concurrent with her Mural Commission at The Showroom, London, on view until 15 August 2026.
In her practice – which encompasses large-scale painting, table vitrines, immersive installations, performances and videos – El-Sayegh collages disparate fragments of information together, interrogating the ways that meaning might emerge from the relationship between these different source materials. Her works often feature newsprint, advertisements, aerial maps, anatomy books and her father's calligraphy, alongside hand-painted elements and non-traditional materials such as latex, allowing her to move between material, corporeal and linguistic frameworks.
Motifs are often repeated across multiple works, demonstrating how the signification of information might change when placed in new contexts. El-Sayegh continues to draw attention to the systems that determine how information is categorised, contained and understood, creating new works that, in her words, ‘bring about questions of legitimate and illegitimate readings of culture and context’.
