Beginning with rigorous research and resulting in a wide range of media, from layered paintings, to installation, diagram, sculpture, sound and video, El-Sayegh’s work is about systems of bodily, linguistic and political order among others, and their disintegration. This gives way to an exploration of the poetry that emerges from a reworking of such codes, and the new meanings that are created. Her work is both personal and political, often merging found references from the media, as well as intimate details, such as her father’s calligraphy work within the same space. In an interview with The Guardian, the artist describes her work as “a forensic thing. I’m laying it all out. I want everything in there, the political, the sexual… there is a terror in excess.” These fragmented units are then reconsidered as a coherent whole.