“Displacement (Prologue)” at Independent Regence

Time Laughs Back at You Like A Sunken Ship made by Basim Magdy in 2012 uses video to make a statement about time and space and it's existence or non existence. It uses props like the industrial mirror and modern architecture to contrast with ancient places like nature and the amphitheater, creating different ideas of cultural tensions, transformations, and adaptions. The use of the mirror also relates to disidentification as it alters the view of the world for the person looking into it, especially as it is seen in the video surrounded by gardens on the reflective side with an interpretive mask on the front that creates a displacement of place and time in space.