Appearing at first as an incoherent mishmash of materials, Yousri’s tongue-in-cheek,mixed-media wall sculptures retain a functionality that bypasses conventional notions of urban planning and utilitarian design. Their lopsided grids of pipes, bulbs and wires display a disregard for a streamlined form, presenting instead a visual randomness that is purposefully constructed to circumvent a specific material reality. A state of excess characterises the works, intentionally creating a sensory overload that foregrounds conflicting claims over public space. The works fall under Yousri’s ongoing project, Guideposts, in which the artist investigates what he terms the “institutional aesthetic,” a slapdash approach to problem-solving that he first noted in government buildings in Cairo, but which is also prevalent throughout the city.