Saleh Barakat Gallery would like to invite you to the opening of Mahmoud Obaidi's exhibition "Organs of the Outlandish" on Friday 21 October, 5-8pm.

The trouble with Vital, accessory,

and auxiliary organs begins the moment they make themselves felt. Only through

the disavowal of organs as internal or external objects can the masters of

their prosthetics exploit them. No figure other than the prosthetic master

encapsulates the unsteady compound of anxiety and hubris, loss and

compensation, narcissistic wounds, and phallic fantasies. The trouble with the

magnificence of the organ happens as it quickly turns awry once it founders or reveals its exteriority. Like the fetish, the organ-turned-intruder enslaves

its subject.

Mahmoud Obaidi's Hidden Messages

and Make War Not Love estrange the histories of exploitation and

dispassion with the advent of colonial industrial capitalism. These works

reveal inklings of primal scenes that are short-circuited. Human body parts

drop in and out in favor of phallic organs, orifices, accessory organs,

prostheses, tanks, weapons and machines.