When the city stands still (2020-2025)
The project is Aya Nassar's post-doctoral fellowship, funded by the British Academy. "When the city stands Stills", PI: Aya Nassar The University of Warwick, the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship PFOS21\210376.
When the city stands still is a research project in which visual artist Azza Ezzat collaborates with geographer Aya Nassar to trace objects, old and new, that populated Cairo skies during COVID-19 lock-down.
Route10 (2021-2025)
Route 10: Researching alternative ways of understanding urban reality of Cairo
Artworks & visual research: Azza Ezzat
Text & research: Aya Nassar & Ismail Albahar
This is Not a landscape (2018- )
Curated by: Ismail Fayed
This is Not a Landscape is an ongoing project that started in 2015 through organic explorations of the urban fabric of the city of Cairo and its myriad complexity. Employing methodologies of visual mapping, illustrations, and graphic experimentation, the project mirrors and attempts to expand the possibilities and meaning of being in the city.
KHairallah Sketches (2016-2022)
The project began as I was commissioned to make a mural in a tunnel in Khairallah district, one of the most dense informal areas in Cairo.
The mural was a part of a renovation process of the tunnel, supported by the Swiss Embassy.
The work tries to capture the complexity of the urban clusters of the district, which remains unique in their composition and layout.
Cities memories (2018-2019)
Main Artist: Ahmad Borham
Co-Artists: Dima Nachawi & Azza Ezzat
Memory of cities is a visual art project that revolves around memory of places. It explores the stories of different places in different cities in the Arab region that share the same approach in urban development which excludes city dwellers and gradually erases the memory of the cities in favor of profit.
This project concentrates on stories of resistance/resilience of these cities to losing their memory by the ongoing process of gentrification, relocation and eviction of their dwellers.
ping pong art program (2018-2019)
As interchangeable art (Ping pong League)
Cairo, Egypt- 2018
ADEF association hosted Ping pong program. It consists of a series of interactive workshops: Each participant will be responsible of producing artwork from another artist’s sketch. She/he could develop the same idea of the sketch or put a reversal concept. Exchanging processes in Ping‐Pong can take many forms.
- The language, Space and the city ... اللغة والفراغ والمدين
Guest facilitator: Abdullah Albayyari
drawing on each other’s sketch.
- Invisible cities 01 ...مدن مخفية 01
Guest facilitator: Ahmad Borham
cutting sketches into two halves then exchange halves between artists then complete it with his/her vision.
- invisible cities 02 ...مدن مخفية 02
Guest facilitator: Ahmad Borham
One long paper sheet available for all participants to draw on at the same time
- the death of the city... موت المدينة
Guest facilitator: Abdullah Albayyari
The form here is a time based circulating sketches between artists.
Finally, artists meet in a long session to work/rethink on their ideas in order to reach more complementary ideas
Ping pong as a collective brainstorming tool
Artists:
Ahmad Borham, Dima Nashawi & Azza Ezzat
Hammana, Lebanon- 2019
During AMMARE art residency, Hammana, Lebanon and in cooperation with Artists: Borham & Dima, As a part of Cities Memories Art project, Ping pong was a collective brainstorming tool to interweave the three narrations of the city and created the intersected frames between stories in our nonlinear artist book: نقطة Speck
Ping pong as an interrogating methodology
facilitators:
Ahmad Borham & Azza Ezzat
Casablanca , Morocco-2019
This time of Cities Memories In Casablanca, During Casa stories حكايات بيضاوية art residency, we used Ping pong as an interactive way to interrogate the residents, helping them telling their trials against gentrification
ping pong program was granted in this trip the travel Grant (within Africa), Africa Art Lines (AAL)
Artwork by Artist: Mohamed Artouf, Casablanca, 2019