Informed by her Egyptian German heritage, Susan Hefuna creates work that moves fluidly between cultures, languages, temporalities, geographies as well as states of knowing and not knowing. Spanning sculpture, drawing, photography and performance, her multidisciplinary practice is characterised by her fixation with structure. The photographic series Landscape/Cityscape (1999–2002), produced using a pinhole camera during visits to Cairo and the Nile Delta, where Hefuna’s family lives, captures the nuances between Cairo’s dense, urban life and the slower, more intimate rhythms of the Delta. Developed outdoors using old liquid, allowing dust, residue and time to intervene, the photographic prints were then photographed and subjected to the same developing process once again. Like memory itself, the resulting images are layered and unstable; decaying, resurfacing and shifting through time. Some of the images square in on architectural patterns like those that feature in the mashrabiya—traditional carved wooden windows in Arab homes—while others include tender portraits of people, grounding the abstract within the personal, filtering the visible and the concealed. The series embodies Hefuna’s fascination with the poetics of structure, whether architectural, cultural, social or emotional. Through fragmentation and repetition, she carves out an intimate space for complexity, ambiguity and layered meaning.