Khaled, Mahmoud. Do You Have Work Tomorrow? 2013. Series of 32 screenshots of a staged conversation on an iPhone, transformed into black and white photographs developed in a dark room, framed, 18 x 13 cm each. Modern Love: Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.

These prints from Egyptian artist Mahmoud Khaled depict the tension between digital escape and public danger for gay men in Cairo. The dream-space provided by apps like Grindr clashes with sociopolitical turmoil and widespread homophobia.