"Pars Pro Toto II" was, like the first volume in 2008, developed in the course of a close dialogue between the German Egyptian artist Susan Hefuna and the editor, Hans Ulrich Obrist. It presents Hefuna's recent body of work.

Susan Hefuna's work has been widely exhibited at such venues as the Louvre, Paris; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; the House of World Cultures, Berlin; the Third Line Gallery, Dubai; Sharjah Biennial; Albion Gallery, London and New York; the New Museum, New York; and Sevilla Biennial. She has been nominated for the 2009 Jameel Prize by London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and will be included in the Venice Biennial in 2009.

The most comprehensive book yet about the Egyptian German artist Susan Hefuna, "Pars Pro Toto" was developed in the course of a dialogue with the editor, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Hefuna has been working in the media of drawing, photography, installation, and video since the early 1990s. She uses these various techniques to intertwine levels of meaning and reflect many-layered codes, which she interprets in both concrete and abstract manners.

Susan Hefuna, born in 1962, has been widely exhibited at such venues as the Louvre, Paris; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; the Third Line Gallery, Dubai; Sharjah Biennale; the New Museum, New York; Albion Gallery, New York; and many more.

Pars Pro Toto III is the result of a close dialog between Egyptian-German artist Susan Hefuna and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. The focus in this book is on Hefuna's complex work groups on site-specific and architectural installations, video works and choreographies. Hefuna uses urban spaces and cities like Cairo, London, Istanbul, Sharjah, Sydney, New York, and Vienna as her laboratory. The artist interacts with dancers, communities, urban and human structures in both personal and political ways. Pars Pro Toto III also features a foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist, an interview with the Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi, as well as texts by the Lebanese-American artist and poet Etel Adnan, by Negar Azimi, Senior Editor of BidounMagazine, and by Brett Littman, director of the Drawing
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