In this workshop, participants will embark on an imaginative journey to explore the intersection of text and ruins. Drawing inspiration from archaeological methods, literature, and creative writing techniques, attendees will explore the potentiality of reimagining ruins, by collectively constructing a text in a fictional world of ruins.

Marianne is an artist living and working in Alexandria, whose works span film and installation. Through her video, photography, sculpture, and mixed media works, she takes on the role of a new historicist, using parafiction to deconstruct the social and political issues of the present. She is recipient of the 2024 Prince Claus Mentorship Award: Cultural & Artistic Responses to the Environmental Crisis. Her work has previously been shown at the Sharjah Biennale (2023), 7th Yokohama Triennial (2020), Manifesta 13 (2020), Towner International (2020), Mediterranea 19 Young Artists Biennale (2020), Havana Biennale (2019), Dakar Biennale (2018), and Gherdeina Biennale, Italy, (2024)

Images by Don Wong