Fathi Hawas

Propaganda Research
2016

What is propaganda ? / does it affect us ? / what is the argument of the discourse of propaganda? / how it works? / It’s propaganda! 

It started when I was obsessed with the fourth generation of wars and how we are become a side of this war without we know or even want, this lead me to the basic element of making wars which is the element of swaying people mind to a particular concept (lie) which is called “propaganda”.The attempt to refuse the systematic information from the propagandists, and leave the circle of the crowd to study how they got affected, and after deconstructing what it called the speech of propaganda through knowing the history of it and how it works the process of deconstruction is the process of find the notion of the artwork, the artistic practices came with a lot of confusion because propaganda it just not a subject you can talk about it but you can work with it as a medium.

Joseph Goebbels (Minister of Propaganda at Nazis Regime) said “a lie told once still a lie, a lie told many times remain a real”, I focused on a specific event and Select a pretty lie from 1974 after October war, Egypt was damaged and spent and a depression mood spread in the country, despite all of this Salah Jaheen (the writer of the national anthem) wrote a super silly song called “life remained pink” although Jaheen was totally depressed, the song was prevailed just to influence non rational people with a non rational response it was like narcosis the crowd, the main cause here is Nageeb Srour one of the intellectuals walked behind Jaheen in streets speaks loudly in satire way “Oh Pink Salah!! Pink and the state is spent!!” Jaheen commit a suicide after a while. After 42 years and in the recent time "life remained pink" it's not a real at all, and the argument of the self started from this point, printing the word on a huge posters using the concept of text art and some inspirations from John Baldassari’s text art to print a small flyers and using the concept of 2+2= 5 from George Orwell’s novel 1984 it represent the brain wash concept.