Apollo Magazine has named Mandy El-Sayegh to its ninth annual 40 Under 40 list. Congratulations Mandy! The magazine’s list recognizes individuals and collectives who are shaping the future of art. This year, Apollo has specifically focused on those born or based the Asia Pacific region in celebration of its thriving and expanding art scene. 📘 @ApolloMagazine: “Born in Selangor, Malaysia, the London-based artist @MandyElSayegh trained as a painter, but since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2009, she has taken up other mediums including film, sculpture, and sound. Her layered works combine a variety of source materials including newsprint, advertisements, aerial maps, anatomy books, and her father’s Arabic calligraphy, which are fragmented and recontextualised in large-scale installations and on painted surfaces. ‘I’m interested in the idea of artifacts not as ethnographic evidence but as a portable ecology—they move, they travel, they contribute to cultural hybridity rather than cultural homogeny. All these elements are constantly remapping how we read history and how we consume the present,’ she has said. Recent years have brought solo exhibitions at Lehmann Maupin in Seoul (2021) and Palm Beach (2022), at Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris (2021), and at the Chisenhale Gallery in London (2019). El-Sayegh’s work has also been included in the British Art Show 9, the London Drawing Biennial, and in 2017 she was shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.” The judges panel for the list included Lee Bul, another artist in our program, as well as notable curators and museum directors from the Asia Pacific region. 📷 Mandy El-Sayegh in her London studio. Photo by Abtin Eshraghi #MandyElSayegh #ApolloMagazine #LehmannMaupin #40Under40