On the occasion of the closing of Mandy El-Sayegh‘s exhibition «In Session» at tichyocean, and to celebrate the launch of the recently published catalogue «SUPERIMPOSITION», we are honoured to host an intimate conversation between El-Sayegh and special guest Dr Gareth Longstaff.

The catalogue not only documents the artist‘s latest exhibitions but provides an in-depth view of El-Sayegh‘s artistic process. Alongside an essay by Dr Gareth Longstaff, the book also features an exclusive interview between the artist and Hans Ulrich Obrist. In conversation with Dr Gareth Longstaff, Mandy El-Sayegh will explain her working methodology. This artist talk is a rare opportunity to discover El-Sayegh‘s body of work, and discuss her practice, research and collaborations.

«In Session» is Mandy El-Sayegh‘s first solo show in Switzerland, for which she created a sweeping installation reimagining the consulting room of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. El-Sayegh assembles objects such as an antique examination couch, Persian rugs and a shelf displaying personal artefacts, mirroring ‚Oriental‘ objects which fascinated Freud. These curiosities, each of which is loaded with its own history and embedded power relations, open a topography of memoria and the power it holds upon societies and how bodies keep the score. Her artistic approach follows the Lacanian terminology of „arbitrary contingents“ and draws from the deep atlas of the subconscious.