Tips from the culture desk: Female artists, poster designs and a zombie performance

This week is largely dominated by women. Musician Maii Waleed will DJ this Tuesday at our free monthly Mada Playlist event at Zigzag. Zawya continues to present a double bill of two revolution inspired documentaries this week. The sixth edition of PhotoCairo Shadows of the Imperceptible continues around Cairo with various exhibitions, performances and talks, one of which is happening this week. The Cairo Video Festival screenings and video installations are also ongoing until February 28. For those who didn’t catch it two years ago, Ahmed El Attar’s The Last Supper will be showing at Falaki Theatre starting Thursday.

Malak Yacout exhibition opening at Townhouse - Saturday

Malak Yacout's first solo show Temporal Semiotics explores the relationships between the oral, the visual and text in Islamic thought. Adding the dimension of time, it uses audiovisual renderings of Quranic recitations to open up possibilities of transliterating meaning through sound, text and sculpture. This work was first shown at the American University in Cairo's graduate exhibition in 2015.

7 pm, February 18, Townhouse Gallery, 6 Nabrawy st, Downtown Cairo. The exhibition is ongoing till April 9. More information here.

Oh, I am so sorry! I didn’t mean to scratch your face performance - Sunday

Taking place inside the Mahmoud Khalil Museum, this is part of an ongoing performance project Dramatic Episodes About Locomotion, in which an artist explores non-linear narratives and the idea of a quest. This particular performance by artist Mohamed Abdelkarim takes the zombie or ghoul as a metaphor to imagine a mode of existence in times of crisis. The event is part of the PhotoCairo's sixth edition, Shadows of the Imperceptible, ongoing till March 23.

7 pm, February 19, Passage 35: Inside Mahmoud Khalil Museum, 1 Kafour Street, next to Magles al-Dawla. The performance will be repeated on February 26. More information here.

Light Fall by Daniele Genadry opening - Wednesday

Gypsum gallery hosts a solo exhibition by Beirut and New York-based artist Daniele Genadry including a series of ink and pencil drawings, paintings and screen prints drawing on images of landscapes photographed by Eadweard Muybridge and his contemporaries.

7 pm, February 22 at Gypsum Gallery, 5 Ibrahim Naguib Street, Garden City, Cairo. The exhibition will continue till April 1. Opening hours: Daily except Sunday from 12-8 pm, Friday 4-8 pm. More information here.

Weltformat poster design exhibition - opens Thursday

The Swiss poster design festival Weltformat comes to Cairo to exhibit 130 posters for cultural events and institutions from Lucerne and the surrounding region. Parallel to the exhibition, graphic and type designer Noel Leu and graphic design duo Ivan Weiss and Michael Kryenbühl will give a poster design workshop and an artist talk.

7 pm, February 23, Cinema Radio Passageway, Talaat Harb street. Open daily from 10 am to 9 pm except Tuesdays. More information here.

Samuli Schilke Book discussion at Wekalet Behna - Friday
The Arabic translation of anthropologist Samuli Schilke’s latest book Till the end of Oil, Immigration and Dreams in the Suburbs of the Gulf was recently released by Sefsafa Book Publishing. The author has spent several years in Egypt and already has numerous books under his belt, in addition to being involved in art projects and films. The discussion will be in Arabic.

7 pm, February 24, Wekalet Behna, 1 al-Keneisa al-Marounia, Mansheya, Alexandria.