There are frustrating moments, like when I put a shirt on and realize my port is
showing, or get out of my chair at work and feel like an old lady with major
joint pain, or wake up in the middle of the
night with a hot flash.
But one should not discount the number of people who genuinely, deeply like the
show, from the citizens of Venice who take great pride that it's here (the owner of a small San Marco pasta
joint who helped me get home my first
night in town was almost moved to tears talking about how much he loved it) to the people who have followed Hirst forever and see this as a triumph in the same vein as his other greatest hits (Courtney Love is a fan).
Maamoun's work has been
shown widely in international exhibitions, including The Law of Existence, Sursock Museum, Beirut (2017); NO TO THE INVASION: Breakdowns and Side - Effects, CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale - on - Hudson, US (2017); Hors Pistes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2016); The Time is Out of
Joint, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah and Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (both 2016); Century of Centuries, SALT, Istanbul (2015); Lest the Two Seas Meet, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2015); The
Night of Counting the Years, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2014) and 2026, Turku Museum, Finland (2013).