Ebti, Ma-kan, 2 places, 2 digital cameras, unidentifiable size, 2019/2024

EBTI

Ma-kan مكان

On view March 12 —  June 22, 2024

Opening Reception with the Artist:
Friday, March 15, 6-8PM

Location: SF Camerawork, 2 Marina Boulevard, Building A, San Francisco, CA, 94123

SF Camerawork is proud to announce Ma-kan مكان, a solo exhibition with Ebti, a multidisciplinary artist, a self-taught photographer, and a translator living between Cairo and San Francisco. The exhibition will be on view at our Fort Mason location from March 12 through June 22, 2024. A public opening reception will be held on Friday, March 15, from 6-8 pm. Ebti and SF Camerawork will host a series of open studio visits at the gallery commencing March 1, where visitors and SF Camerawork community members will have the opportunity to learn about the artist's work in progress and witness Ebti's creative practice unfold in real-time. Additional programs and specific open studio dates are to be announced on our website at sfcamerawork.org., and via our email list. 

Ma-kan مكان means place in Arabic. Taken apart, the word ma-kan can also mean it was and is not. For her exhibition, Ma-kan مكان, Ebti will present a suite of site-responsive, photo-based installation works crafted from prints on fabric, projections, transparencies, and traditional paper prints. Using images, stories, and objects collected from her travels, home life, and the space itself, a narrative of perpetual departure, arrival, home, and homesickness unfolds. 


Selected Works

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Artist Statement

Portrait of Ebti by Amy Osborne

Informed by translation, languages, theater, literature and my family’s making-traditions I never learned,

I look at the ideas of illusion and attachment through a multifaceted, dislocated lens.

My work may be rooted in photography but I am constantly looking for new formats and materials to carry my ideas.

I’m interested in collapsing time/space in search of home. How can one carve out their own when one is twice removed (in time/space) from it?

Once I start working on a project, I embrace accident and failure. My practice is ever-evolving, ongoing and is influenced by my restlessness. Look again!

Ebti is a multidisciplinary artist, a self-taught photographer and a translator living between Cairo and San Francisco. She has a BA in German studies from Cairo University, Egypt, an MA in translation and intercultural studies from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany and an MFA in Fine Arts from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.

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Website: ebti.art
Follow Ebti on Instagram: @ebtiebtiebti