{"id":8245,"date":"2026-05-27T16:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/?p=8245"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:10:50","slug":"mohamed-mahdy-back-in-aarhus-to-exhibit-personal-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/mohamed-mahdy-back-in-aarhus-to-exhibit-personal-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Mahdy back in Aarhus to exhibit personal project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mohamed Mahdy<\/a> is exhibiting his personal project 455 Days<\/em> at Gallery Image<\/a> in Aarhus till June 28, 2026. Mahdy started the project as his Visual Project during his Photo 2 study at DMJX in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mohamed Mahdy portrayed in the reflection of one of his exhibited images. Photo: S\u00f8ren Pagter<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

In 2020, Mohamed Mahdy was in military service, which is mandatory for serviceable Egyptian men. He managed to bring a camera phone, which he used to document fragments of his daily life as a conscript. There were also memories that could not be photographed, but which were written down in the diaries he kept during this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the exhibition 455 Days, Mahdy tries to revisit these memories. By framing a picture of the past, questions also arise about what the truth is. The exhibition highlights the tension between Mahdy\u2019s photographs, his other memories and the objects he collected during his time in the military. 455 Days stages different memories and makes us wonder which stagings credibly convey reality.

Mohamed Mahdy made the first draft of the 455 Days<\/em> project during his study as an ECCA Scholarship student at DMJX in 2022.

The exhibition is curated by Farida Youssef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mohamed Mahdy at his exhibition at Gallery Image before the opening May 8, 2026. Photo: Ahmad Shaqulain<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mohamed Mahdy’s exhibition 455 Days at Gallery Image. Photo: Ahmad Shaqulain<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Guests at Mahdy’s exhibition at Gallery Image.<\/em> Photo: Ahmad Shaqulain<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some of Mohamed Mahdy camera phone pictures from his time as conscript in the Egyptian army. Photo: Ahmad Shaqulain<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Guests<\/em> at Mohamed Mahdy’s exhibition 455 Days at Gallery Image. Photo: Ahmad Shaqulain<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mohamed Mahdy is exhibiting his personal project 455 Days at Gallery Image in Aarhus till June 28, 2026. Mahdy started the project as his Visual Project during his Photo 2 study at DMJX in 2022. In 2020, Mohamed Mahdy was in military service, which is mandatory for serviceable Egyptian men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8256,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8245\/revisions\/8256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}