Sherin Guirguis: Of Thorns and Love

Los Angeles-based Egyptian-born artist Sherin Guirguis addresses neglected histories in social and artistic hierarchies. Her first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles, Of Thorns and Love, presents her research of Egyptian feminist poet, activist, and writer Doria Shafik (1908 –75). Shafik was a prominent leader of the Egyptian feminist movement where her publications and political actions helped ensure the rights of women. Guirguis’ will generate a new body of two- and three-dimensional works that draw upon important architectural sites, poems, and political actions in Shafik’s life as a way to echo the silenced voices of the past and the invisible histories they represent.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.