Exhibitions

Azza Ezzat

7th  February  2024

Exhibited work: Skinscapes Series

In this new series, Skinscapes: Tracing Spatial Phantoms,  artist Azza Ezzat expands her usual practice of looking at the urban context and setting and how she dissects and examines the everyday reality of a city like Cairo and extends her gaze and presence to a more domestic and bodily space. This comes as part of a larger project that looks at the way our presence and use of our immediate surroundings leaves multi-layered impressions and traces. Ezzat moves from the “outside” urban space, to a more “interior” private space, physically encountering the material surface of the canvas using body painting. Unlike her usual methodical and analytical approach, the artist develops a different notion of a surface and what a canvas can be when we see it as an extension of our body. Using her own body, with its solidity and physicality, against the flat surface of the canvas, through body painting, Azza confronts her need to understand the position of her body vis-à-vis her medium. In this new series, she physically subtracts all mediation of tools or instruments, and falls back into her body, as she imprints such encounter again and again, against the canvas, using nothing but her body and paint, generating possibilities of depth and perspective that can be traced and seen through the different textures and vestiges the paint reveals, paralleling her own variegated experience of her body. 

Text by: Ismael Fayed

في هذه السلسلة الجديدة، "ما بين التتبع والملاحقة: آثار فضاءات متقاطعة"، توسع الفنانة عزت عزت ممارستها المعتادة في النظر إلى السياق  المكان الحضري وكيف تقوم بتشريح وفحصالواقع اليومي لمدينة مثل القاهرة وتوسع نظرتها وحضورها إلى الفضاء الجسدي و بيئة أكثر حميمية. يأتي هذا كجزء من مشروع أكبر يبحث في الطريقة التي يترك بها وجودنا واستخدامنا لمحيطنا المباشر انطباعات وآثار متعددة الطبقات. تنتقل عزت من الفضاء الحضري "الخارجي" إلى مساحة خاصة "داخلية" أكثر، حيث تواجه جسديًا السطح المادي للوحة باستخدام الرسم بالجسم. على عكس منهجها النسقي والتحليلي المعتاد، تطور الفنانة مفهومًا مختلفًا للسطح وما يمكن أن تكون عليه اللوحة القماشية عندما نراها كامتداد لجسدنا. باستخدام جسدها، بصلابته وماديته، على السطح المسطح للوحة، من خلال الرسم بالجسد، تواجه عزة حاجتها إلى فهم موقع جسدها مقابل الوسيط الفني الذي تتعامل معه. في هذا العمل الجديد، تتخلص جسديًا من كل وساطات الأدوات أو الوسائل المستخدمة، وتعود إلى جسدها، حيث تطبع هذا اللقاء مرارًا وتكرارًا، على اللوحة، دون استخدام أي شيء سوى جسدها وطلائها، مما يولد إمكانيات العمق والمنظور الذي يمكن تعقبها ورؤيتها من خلال الآثار والبقايا المختلفة التي يكشفها الطلاء، بالتوازي مع تجربتها المتغيرة مع جسدها.

كتابة: اسماعيل فايد

Duo by: Azza Ezzat & Peter Blodau

Cairo is a state of becoming ... We just don't know what it's becoming yet

                           Daniel Joseph Monti, Michael Ian Borer, Lyn C. Macgregor.

artists: Azza Ezzat & Peter Blodau 

Access art space, Cairo, Egypt

10.Jun till 03.Jul 2023

The word Tarakom in Arabic (تراكم) has two meanings:  

1. As a noun that means accumulation (ex.تراكم الطبقات layers accumulation)
2. As a verb that means “it sees you” (ex. هي تراكم من حيث لا ترونها It sees you from where you do not see it)

My participated work:

Kites, Billboards & Bridges project

Khairallah sketches 2018

Khairallah sketches 2020

1st third of Formal Informals panorama

 Group Exhibition

"... And  this is why we find a strong link between the experience of each artist  and the layers of the city that they know that has impacted them and  helped shape them as artists over the years of involvement and  participation with that city and what takes place in it."

My participated work:

Khairallah Project with its full series  

 Group Exhibition

As Bibliothek  launches its first annual  program, and we initiate a dialogue with the  city we live in with all  its complexity and vastness, we invite  contemporary artists to engage  with us in a process of discovery. To  explore what it means to live in a  city like Cairo, here and now, and  what kind of artistic methods,  processes and and we initiate a dialog expressions can this take.   Imagining A Landscape is an exhibition that showcases the work of   several contemporary artists who individually reflect on the many   possibilities of what a view of our surrounding environment might look   like today.
The exhibition opening will take place on Saturday 26th February 2022 starting 10:00 am

My participated work: 

Kites, Billboards & Bridges project

Khairallah sketches 2020