Yasser Aggour



		Yasser Aggour's photographs and paintings communicate an awareness of economic, cultural, and social transformation on a global scale. He extends and distorts notions of identity, presenting himself as his mother dressed in an apron, or by dressing his family in black stocking headgear as they laugh around the kitchen table. They appear as pleasant domestic portraits taken after a crime spree, undermining traditional representations of masculinity, race, sexuality, and cultural purity.
		His paintings combine western and eastern cultural references while questioning notions of authorship. Aggour commissions paintings from billboard-producing cottage industries. The series of historical figures, icons, revolutionaries, and alleged apostles presented at Momenta were done in Cairo, Egypt.