Sudanese-Canadian artist Azza El Siddique created Final Fantasy (2023 – above) specifically for her gallery’s debut at Art Basel Miami Beach, where it moved right away into the don’t miss category of several influential art sites.
Artsy, the world”s largest online marketplace, for instance, placed the installation from Montréal’s Bradley Ertaskiran gallery on its list of Top 10 booths at the massive art fair. (Artsy Top 10 article here) It said the booth “is one of the few standout solo exhibitions at the fair.”
“Inspired by ancient Egyptian and Sudanese culture, this multisensory and immersive work resembles a tomb guarded by two cement sculptures of Dobermans in a sphinx position (cast from the artist’s own pet Doberman),” Artsy wrote.
Based on Egyptian and Nubian myths
El Siddique’s immersive installation acts as part laboratory, part archeological ruin. . . .This project continues the artist’s ongoing research into Egyptian and Nubian myths, histories, and mortuary practices, reinterpreted through contemporary poetic materiality – Bradley Ertaskiran gallery
Azza El Siddique (b. 1984 Khartoum, Sudan) received an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2019 and a BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2014. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut. See her artist page for information on her extensive works and exhibitions.
Bradley Ertaskiran, here.
Images of Final Fantasy for the Art Basel at Miami Beach show are all from the gallery website, here.
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