Mena El Shazly is a visual artist born in Giza who works across analogue video, embroidery and performance. Her practice speculates on notions of presence and transcendence in the digital world and explores the cultivation of decay to arrive at alternative forms of transformation and regeneration. Her work has been shown at The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver (2024), Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo (2024), VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver (2022) and Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo (2019). She was a fellow of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut (2015). Mena obtained an MFA from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver (2023) and a bachelor’s degree from the American University in Cairo (2013).