An exhibition at ARD Art Institution, Garden City, Cairo.
Curated by Farida Youssef
November 2024
Click below to read the texts Farida and I wrote to accompany the exhibition, along with a map with details of the works. All but one was made in the five years since I arrived in Egypt.
A bridge to cross as I come to it
Steel, wood, tissue paper, PVA glue, string, sheepswool, dog lead
clasp, eye swivel, nuts and bolts, climbing harness, pulleys, rope
2022 - 2024
224cm x 100cm x 100cm
Lines that grew close to the balcony
Glass and steel wire. With thanks to the team at Khaled Ali Glass.
2023
14cm x 11cm x11cm , 14cm x 11cm x11cm
Teenage cat
Newsprint paper, PVA glue
2021
23cm x 10cm x 14cm
The Embraces
Newsprint paper, PVA glue, steel.
2021 - 2019
Various dimensions. The cymbal at the equator of each sculpture is held balancing at the same height as my shoulders. (160cm). None is larger than 68cm in any direction.
Early in the morning, before Farida came.
Charcoal pencil on tracing paper
Ramadan 2024
70cm x 100cm
The winter of Rowan and Iris (click HERE for more images)
Oakbark tanned leather from Dorset, Nile Clay from Nazla, Fayoum
Somerset, UK, 2021
Leather 190cm x 44cm x 11cm. Clay forms - 9 to 69mm.
Faggala tunnels
Cardboard, PVA glue, children’s projector torches, slide disks, steel
2023 - 2024
Each approx 63cm x 28 x 33cm
No one is made in one go.
Lead alloy (copper, lead, tin and bismuth)
2018
17.2cm x 4.5cm x 5cm
One degree of a big circle made of what is around you.
Bronze.
2016
226cm x 4cm x 0.6cm when full extended.
ود اللي في حدودي
Dood ill lee fee hadoodee / the worm in my boundaries.
Egyptian sheepswool, Egyptian cotton, Rose madder plant dye
2019
220cm x 120cm x 20cm
An animal knows how to rest.
Newsprint paper, oil pastel, pencil, other drawing materials
Fayoum, 2018.
278cm x 95cm
I extend my heartful thanks to everyone who made this exhibition.
Farida Youssef, curator
Roshanak Zangeneh, artistic director of the film
Nour Emad, film editor
Moustafa Shaaban Abdelhamed, sound mixing
Mohamed Helmy, videographer
Aida El Oweidy, graphic designer
Norah Nagy, translator
Rana El Nimr, conversation participant
Hana el Beblawy, founder of ARD
The ARD team - Amira Elkouny, Farah El Shawarby, Youmna Swaydan, Ahmed and Khidr.
And to the photographers who captured it:
Amelie Sachs - 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 12, 13
Omar Kafrawy - 6, 8, 9, 21, 23
Boulos Isaac - 11
Roshanak Zangeneh - 10, 20
rana elnemr - 5, 19
A deinstallation day photograph - looking in at the loom and the ladder Mido would climb to unhook her from the ceiling.