London , London , United Kingdom
I am an Egyptian/British artist living and working in the UK.These ideas that are central to my work...
About the artist
Joined In 2010
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About the artist
Joined In 2010
(2 Followers)
I am an Egyptian/British artist living and working in the UK.These ideas that are central to my work are of my own experiences and observations that I accumulated throughout my living memory. My mothers ways of using everything and her abilities to make use of anything more than one time, me wearing my older sisters clothes, as she made use of them over and over again. My fathers doggedness and stubbornness when he tried to fix any and every thing, making things from nothing and creating hardship for himself and every one surrounding him.I also draw on my days at school and university in Cairo, my move to Sinai, working there and crossing the checkpoints that are all over the place, crossing the borders of Egypt for the first time in 1994 to Germany and my unforgettable time in western Europe, the people that I met on my way and the experiences. The conflict between the Eastern and Western values.Value is one of the most important issues that I dealt with in the past and am still dealing with, the way we see things and use them, how we follow fashion and change our position according to it, how we consume and discard, how we look at things and put a price on them. I made works in 2001, 2002 and 2003 that try to deal with the iss...
Slade School of Art, London, GB, Sculpture,
Exhibitions
June 2011, sound and internet-based work, Everything is Exceptional, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland, in collaboration with Linda Polack.
April 2011, screen installation, group exhibition, Myth Migration & Egyptomania, Petrie Museum, London.
November 2010, installation and video screening, Utopia Project Archive 2006 –2010, Institute of Contemporary Greek Art, Athens.
October 2010, short film (Split Frame) as part of the Resonance FM stand at the Frieze Art Fair, London.
October 2010, first facilitation event by Statement in Motion (a collaboration project with M. Blejec), screenings of films by D. Swarowsky at three London venues.
September 2010, solo exhibition, two works (an installation and Printing Machine), at Quare, London.
May 2010, Bridge Between Two Walls, work on Zerostretch.net
October 2008, installation and performance (Food For All project, 2), group exhibition 13, Lisbon.
July 2008, Food For All project, an ongoing generative work, Crete, Greece.
July 2008, Special Place II, MFA end of year show, Slade School of Art, UCL, London.
May 2008, Through Space, large blind walkway construction and a decree of transition of ownership, Slade School of Art, UCL, London.
Octobe...