Visual & Performing Arts
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35 Years and Many Question
This text looks at thirty five years of the Youth Salon (35th edition) reflecting on the last five years and how, despite stifling political and creative constraints, certain genres and formats finally witnessed an artistic breakthrough
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Roznama 8: Art at the end of the world
Review of the group exhibition and competition, Ronzama 8 which took place at the Contemporary Image Collective and Medrar for Contemporary Art in 2021
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The Open Secret
Review of the Joburg Art Fair which took place at Johannesburg, 2018
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Hijacking the contemporary
Review of Imane Ibrahim's exhibition Building Number Twelve Al Kamel Mohammed which took at place, at Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, 2018
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A future possible?
Review of 10th Berlin Biennale, We Don't Need Another Hero taking place in Berlin, 2018
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The Lion and the Brown Witch
Reflections on Theaterformen Festival which took place at Braunschweig, 2018
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On poignant politics and precarious monuments
A review of Mahmoud Khaled's A New Commission for an Old State, which took place at Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, 2018
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Against the tyranny of aesthetic fashions: Remnants of Enchantment at Gypsum Gallery
Review of Doa Aly and Islam Zaher's exhibtion, Remnants of Enchantment, at Gypsum Gallery 2017
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Art and Liberty at the Pompidou: Competitive patronage and an “international focus”
Review of the exhibition Art and Liberty: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938–1948) which took place at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2017
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Staging the truth: Azadeh Akhlaghi’s As an Eyewitness
Review of Azadeh Akhlaghi’s exhibition, By An Eyewitness, which took place at Art Heritage Gallery in Delhi, 2016
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Evasive Routes: Art that reflects a current desperation, and a little hope
Review of the exhibition Evasive Routes, which took place at the Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, 2016
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Whose surrealism? On When Art Becomes Liberty
Review of the exhibition When Art Becomes Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938-1965) which took place at the Palace of the Arts, Cairo, 2016
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But a Storm Is Blowing: Art contending with memory and tragic contexts
Review of the show But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2016
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On the rooftops of Egypt’s capital, photographers reclaim the urban landscape.
A review of Cairo Bats exhibition, Act 1: The Roof, held at Contemporary Image Collective, originally published in Aperture Issue 224, “Sounds”
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Roznama 5: The return of politics, including some empty gestures
Review of the annual group exhibtion and competition, Roznama 5
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CIC show allows psychology and emotion to triumph
Review of Chronic: On Psychological Exhaustion as a Public State, the second exhibition in Contemporary Image Collective's ongoing If Not for that Wall series
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Sounds As If modernism is still relevant
Review of Sounds As If as part of D-CAF visual arts program, and curated by Gypsum Gallery director Aleya Hamza
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CIC’s portfolio review: On narcissism and constructing aesthetic objects
Review of Annual Portfolio Review/Table Exhibition held at Contemporary Image Collective
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The 57th Cairo Salon: Existentialism as hope
Review of the 57th Cairo Salon held at the Palace of the Arts in Cairo
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‘Roznama 4’: Between the contemporary and a hard place
Review of Roznama 4
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Stagnancy, slowness and voyeurism
Review of the exhibition, “By those Who Are Present”, held at Townhouse Gallery, showcasing the works of artists Assem Hendawi, Maged Abou El-Dahab and Osama El Wardani
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Some observations on the AUC’s graduate exhibition
Review of the AUC Fine Arts graduate exhibition 2015 held at the Sharjah Art Gallery at AUC
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Dismal state: The 37th General Exhibition
Review of the 37th General Exhibition held at the Palace of the Arts and organized by the Fine Arts Sectors in Egypt
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Gypsum Gallery’s first year: An alternative in the making
A review of Gypsum Gallery’s first year and a reflection on the contemporary art gallery scene
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Synonyms of Seeing
Review of Rana El Nemr’s Assembled in Streams of Synonyms (2014), curated by Maha Maamoun and part of AUC_LAB a series of exhibitions and publications commissioned by the Sharjah Art Gallery of the American University in Cairo (directed by Kaya Behkalam)
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Obsession with time: Basim Magdy’s show at Gypsum
Review of Basim Magdy's exhibition, "Measuring the Last Breaths of Time on a Fading Scale" at Gypsum Gallery in January 2015
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Third Eye offers insights into young artists’ use of images
Review of the exhibition ‘Third Eye’, held at Mashrabia Gallery 2014
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Next to Here: Or rather over there
Review of Next To Here exhibition held at CIC in 2014
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Certain Narratives Persist, Here and Elsewhere
Conversation with Jenifer Evans on the exhibition Here and Elsewhere, that was held at the New Museum in New York in 2014
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Vacuum formed, or Taha Belal’s many ways of looking
Review of Taha Belal’s debut solo show at Gypsum Gallery in 2014
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A critical journey: On Mahmoud Khaled’s ‘Painter on a Study Trip’
A review of Mahmoud Khaled’s exhibition ‘Painter on a Study Trip’ at Gypsum Gallery in 2014
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Dissecting Ovid: A review of Doa Aly’s ‘The House of Sleep’
Review of Doa Aly’s exhibition ‘House of Sleep’ at Gypsum Gallery in 2014
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Q&A with Hala Imam
Interview with Hala Imam (2011) on the experience of running the Modern Dance School and what it means to have a community of dancers
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Q&A with Karima Mansour
Interview with artist and choreographer Karima Mansour (2011) on what it means to be a dancer and choreographer in Egypt
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Mad Song Challenges Perception of Reality
Review of Adham Hafez’s performance ‘Mad Song’, performed at the Townhouse Gallery, 2008
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Between Beauty and Despair
Between Beauty & Despair: A review of the exhibition Tales Around the Pavement II held at CIC in 2008
