Profile
Assem Hendawi is an artist and researcher based in Egypt. Assem works across moving image, digital media, and speculative methodologies, navigating the tension between prediction and fiction, questioning how technological speculation constructs realities that are lived, imposed, or contested. Focusing on time-based media, simulations, and computational aesthetics, he examines how images mediate history and construct speculative futures. His work interrogates infrastructures as ideological forces, where governance, technology, and media sustain or unravel dominant fictions.
Assem's work has been exhibited at Berlinale Forum Expanded, Singapore Biennale, Beirut Art Center, Townhouse Gallery, and the Contemporary Image Collective (CIC), among others. His practice has been supported by various fellowships and residencies, including Salzburger Kunstverein, Manifesta Summer School, and the Human-Machine Fellowship (E-Werk Luckenwalde & Akademie der Künste, 2024). He is also the co-founder of SIMIYYA, a platform for artistic research and speculative aesthetics.
