{"product_id":"i-was-going-to-work-by-nourhan-maayouf","title":"I WAS GOING TO WORK by Nourhan Maayouf","description":"\u003cp\u003e140 x 200mm, 92 pages, Black \u0026amp; white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, Edition of 500, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNourhan Maayouf’s I Was Going to Work is a hybrid sci-fi picture book by the Cairo-based artist, in which the proto-cyborg citizens of Happy Land Nation establish new-fashioned diurnal rhythms against the ever-present backdrop of a monorail to nowhere and its pillars, idle and idolatrous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross forty-four spreads of what might be thought of as a picture book for adults, Maayouf delves into every aspect of a deeply familiar society in which retrograde devolution is billboarded as reinvention by Orwellian technocrats and speculators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd yet pockets of the cyborg population continue striving, dreaming, craving, protesting, gleaning, and inventing. For a situation to be bleak, some notion of beauty must remain tenaciously rooted where it matters most.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bored Wolves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56579266085250,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5338\/0582\/files\/IMG_5929077.jpg?v=1776864997","url":"https:\/\/goodpress.co.uk\/products\/i-was-going-to-work-by-nourhan-maayouf","provider":"Good Press — good books \u0026 more","version":"1.0","type":"link"}