Artist Mandy El-Sayegh and writer-curator Shumon Basar come together to discuss El-Sayegh’s practice and her mural commission at The Showroom – This is a Sign: Notes on Assembly – which employs a cut-up methodology, layering materials with poetic fragments, to explore the textures of commonality, social justice, and modes of resistance. They will consider the references and approaches that shape El-Sayegh’s work, from questions of translation and legitimacy to the ways histories are continually remapped through images and material culture.

“How do you create a language which allows movement to get outside of the structure? This insistence on the image, and the persistence of forgotten subjects or fragments, combined with an endeavour to be with and sit with is important. Repetition makes a demand against forgetting.” – Mandy El-Sayegh with Chloe Stagaman, The Brooklyn Rail, 2026.