Art Projects

 During the spring of 2020, with COVID-19 lockdown, Cairenes took to flying kites over the city’s rooftops in the few hours before curfew time. They attached their cellphones to the kites to take snapshots of the city from above. 

Tentative project researching alternative ways of understanding urban reality of Cairo.

Route 10 as a road is part of Elbeshaa project route but with specific characteristics 

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.

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

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

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