Digital/analogue collage, photography, video | 2016 - present

“ Was that really you? engages with the question of representation of women in photographic images produced and circulated in the Arab region and their varying social status and use. The project is particularly interested in images that do not primarily form part of artistic image production such as private image archives, stock photography, illustrations in books, magazines, images from photo studios or used on the packaging of products. Through out the research the artist engages with the dominant aesthetics of the contemporary photographic industry and reworks them. The main motive of Mounier’s research is the various forms of images of women and the different ways in which they are circulated and shared. She is interested in questions such as: Why are some images private and cannot be shared with the public? How can the image and its status transform by changing one or few aspects of it? And, on the other hand, what about the images of women that are being circulated widely, yet are in no way connected to the actual person represented in the picture?” Curator Andrea Thal, contemporary Image Collective

The project was shown as an ongoing research in:  

- Mass Alexandria Year Exhibition,Alexandria, 2016
- Photo Cairo Festival, Vol 6, Saad Zaghloul Culture Centre, Cairo, 2017
- I will Defend Myself, Solo Exhibition, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, 2017