Mandy El-Sayegh: Anteroom Takeover
— The Arts Club, London 29 April — 27 September 2026

From April to September 2026, Mandy El-Sayegh transformed the Ante Room into an immersive, site-specific environment.

Conceived as a ‘takeover’, the installation draws visitors into El-Sayegh’s distinctive multidisciplinary practice, where painting, collage, installation and performance intersect. Working with found materials, including newspapers, advertisements, medical diagrams and fragments of text, she constructs dense, layered compositions that reflect the systems through which meaning and identity are produced.

El-Sayegh’s work examines how structures of language, power and circulation shape contemporary subjectivity, suggesting that identity is assembled not only through images, but through the broader frameworks of media and communication that condition how we see and understand the world. Occupying the Ante Room in its entirety, this presentation marks a significant moment within the artist’s practice, offering an immersive encounter with work that is both materially complex and conceptually rigorous.

Wedel Art is very grateful for the generous support of Mandy El-Sayegh, her studio team and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery in making this installation possible.