Hallucination: Superstition

2001

Hallucination: Superstition broaches the issues of the way superstition and ritual imprint themselves on our lives and how they form links that draw us back to our childhood. Carved out – sometimes intricately, sometimes roughly - from plates of sheet metal, Ayman Ramadan recreates the symbols of folkloric ritual that his mother employed whilst he was growing up; talismans for protection during times of sickness or travel, the precautions practiced on a new-born baby and all the many rituals to ward off the evil eye that continue to be practiced across Egypt.