From layered freehand grid paintings, to room-sized installations of newsprint pasted floor-to-ceiling, Mandy El-Sayegh’s artworks interrogate the complex systems at play in contemporary social, economic, and political landscapes. The artist’s solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong, “Dispersal,” features her Net-Grid paintings, latex sculptures, and a wall covered in pages from local English-language broadsheet South China Morning Post, exploring the ways in which territory, culture, identity, and information are subject to processes of fragmentation in the 21st century. In this interview with AAP, El-Sayegh shares her thoughts on abstraction, anxiety, and the dispersal of the self.