Sylvia Kouvali presents That That, an exhibition of new work by Nour Mobarak (b. 1985, Cairo, Egypt, lives and works in Bainbridge Island, Washington). Mobarak's multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, sound, performance and moving image, exploring the unstable relationship between voice, language and the body. Combining organic and synthetic materials, That That challenges distinctions between the human and non-human, the present and the absent, the living and the dead.
For her third exhibition with the gallery, Mobarak presents new works from her Recto Verso series, recently presented at the Whitney Biennial 2026, alongside the sculpture Reproductive Logistics V. Drawing on casts of her buttocks, these relief works reduce physical presence into a tablet through which light, colour and space are explored. Rather than presenting the body as fixed or stable, Recto Verso imagines it as continually reconstituted through material transformation. Mobarak describes her Recto Verso series as a return to the body. Against a backdrop of global and personal uncertainty, the artist transforms her own body into an abstract geometric form.