Mahmoud Khaled’s practice navigates the intimate and the institutional, moving between subtle personal codes and grand gestures of power. His works dwell in the ruins of failed ideologies, reproducing their artifacts to reflect on those erased in their making. Through spatial gestures, objects of desire, and simulated dialogues, Khaled evokes queer identity as both an aesthetic and archival pursuit — shaped by presence, absence, and the histories embedded in form.Critically engaging with his classical training, he interrogates the aesthetics of authority and the theatre of commemoration. Sometimes a flâneur, sometimes an archivist, Khaled assumes roles to expose what official memory omits — offering quiet proposals for justice and redemptive futures.
