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Nevine Mahmoud — Swing Set
Nevine Mahmoud

Swing Set

2021

Swing Set (2021) presents a disarmingly playful yet rigorously material investigation into the body, desire, and the objects that orbit both. Nevine Mahmoud constructs a full-scale swing from steel, paint, and stainless steel hardware, suspending a seat formed from Portuguese pink marble, plastic, glass, and resin. The marble carries its own charged history within Mahmoud's practice, chosen for its flesh-like warmth and its long association with idealized sculpture, yet here it is shaped into something deliberately domestic and intimate rather than monumental. The result is an object that occupies a precise and productive tension between childhood nostalgia and adult self-awareness, between the industrial and the sensuous. Mahmoud consistently draws attention to the way human bodies press against, rest upon, and are shaped by objects, and Swing Set extends this inquiry with particular elegance. The invitation to sit, or simply to imagine sitting, activates a somatic response that few purely wall-based works can achieve. The marble seat holds the suggestion of a body even in its absence, cool and weighty and faintly anthropomorphic. At a commanding 177.8 by 152.4 by 101.6 centimetres, the work commands physical space in a room without dominating it, functioning more like a presence than a piece of furniture. Acquired directly from FOUNDRY SEOUL, Swing Set arrives signed by the artist and represents a significant example of Mahmoud's three-dimensional output from 2021, a period during which her international profile expanded considerably. Works of this scale and material complexity from her practice are encountered rarely on the primary market, and the work's combination of conceptual clarity, material richness, and immediate visual appeal positions it as a distinctive acquisition for collectors who value sculpture that rewards both intellectual engagement and lived experience.

Medium
Steel, paint, Portuguese pink marble, plastic, glass, resin and stainless steel hardware
Overall
Signed
Yes
Location
FOUNDRY SEOUL, Seoul

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Nevine Mahmoud, Swing Set, 2021

Swing Set (2021) presents a disarmingly playful yet rigorously material investigation into the body, desire, and the objects that orbit both. Nevine Mahmoud constructs a full-scale swing from steel, paint, and stainless steel hardware, suspending a seat formed from Portuguese pink marble, plastic, glass, and resin. The marble carries its own charged history within Mahmoud's practice, chosen for its flesh-like warmth and its long association with idealized sculpture, yet here it is shaped into something deliberately domestic and intimate rather than monumental. The result is an object that occupies a precise and productive tension between childhood nostalgia and adult self-awareness, between the industrial and the sensuous. Mahmoud consistently draws attention to the way human bodies press against, rest upon, and are shaped by objects, and Swing Set extends this inquiry with particular elegance. The invitation to sit, or simply to imagine sitting, activates a somatic response that few purely wall-based works can achieve. The marble seat holds the suggestion of a body even in its absence, cool and weighty and faintly anthropomorphic. At a commanding 177.8 by 152.4 by 101.6 centimetres, the work commands physical space in a room without dominating it, functioning more like a presence than a piece of furniture. Acquired directly from FOUNDRY SEOUL, Swing Set arrives signed by the artist and represents a significant example of Mahmoud's three-dimensional output from 2021, a period during which her international profile expanded considerably. Works of this scale and material complexity from her practice are encountered rarely on the primary market, and the work's combination of conceptual clarity, material richness, and immediate visual appeal positions it as a distinctive acquisition for collectors who value sculpture that rewards both intellectual engagement and lived experience.

Medium
Steel, paint, Portuguese pink marble, plastic, glass, resin and stainless steel hardware
Dimensions
overall: 177.8 x 152.4 x 101.6 cm
Year
2021
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
FOUNDRY SEOUL, Seoul

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