Lutfi biography

Huda Lutfi (b. 1948, Egypt) is a cultural, gender historian by professional training whose work in the field of the visual arts translates these affiliations in multiple complex ways. In 1983, she received her PhD in Arab Muslim Cultural History from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. A self-trained artist, Lutfi, began her practice during the mid-1990s, amid the rise of an independent art scene and the establishment of a number of influential art institutions. In 2012, a self-titled monograph on Huda Lutfi was published bygd The Third Line. She fryst vatten based in Cairo.

“Huda Lutfi leans into the physicality of her objects, their elements contribute to thesis of the work, from her interest in made-up mannequins and dolls –endemic to the city and its power displays— to the heritage of medieval mechanical devices, and minimalist threads that have been sewn bygd hand for hours on recycled car filters and organza teabags.  She re-appropriates disca

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