Susan Hefuna studied at the Kunstakademie in Karlsruhe before pursuing a postgraduate degree in new media at the Kunstakademie of Frankfurt. At the intersection of the two cultures in which she has been immersed (German and Egyptian), her work is an investigation of oppositions and transitions, sequences and series, interested in abstract structures such as molecules and modules. “I work with images – multimedia, photography, ink drawings and installations. I superimpose layers by weaving them with depths that evoke an infinity of meanings, from the most concrete to the elusive.” She has shown in numerous museums throughout the world. For nearly fourteen years, she has been interested in the theme of the mashrabiya, the latticework openings in Islamic architecture, symbols of this in-between on which her own identity is based. The photographs in this series (Women Behind Mashrabiya I, 1997-2004) superimpose portraits of women and wire mesh motifs.