Azza Ezzat
visual artist

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Azza Ezzat
visual artist

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    • About
      • Who I am
      • Current & Upcoming
      • In press
    • Work
      • Selected works
      • Art Projects
      • Exhibitions
      • Early works
      • acquired
    • publications
      • Essays
      • Artist books
      • Miscellaneous
  • Home
  • About
    • Who I am
    • Current & Upcoming
    • In press
  • Work
    • Selected works
    • Art Projects
    • Exhibitions
    • Early works
    • acquired
  • publications
    • Essays
    • Artist books
    • Miscellaneous

Exhibitions

Gaza Biennale - Istanbul Pavilion 2025
Between the Planned and the Lived (Solo) 2025
BA 11th Artist's book Biennial 2024
Skinscapes (Solo) 2024
Tarakom (Duo) 2023
Malaz 2022
The Egyptian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennial, Venice, 2018
Dakart Biennial 2018, Darb 1718 Pavilion, Dakar, 2018
Something else, Cairo off-biennial, Cairo, 2018

Gaza Biennale - Istanbul Pavilion, 2025

Gaza Biennale - Istanbul Pavilion 2025

From 19 Sep. 25 to 23 Nov. 25 in DEPO Istanbul

Exhibited work:

An Unbearable Imagination series
The elevator shaft, pen & ink oh paper, 60x80 cm, 2025
The neighborhood mosque, pen & ink oh paper, 60x80 cm, 2025
The lemon tree, pen & ink oh paper, 60x80 cm, 2025


An Unbearable Imagination

The three paintings reveal the limits of the idea of ​​empathy or sharing the pain of others, but at the same time, they open up a horizon of what empathy requires: the extension of the act of disaster into our reality and our experience of it. Artist Azza Ezzat attempts to emulate the work of artist Mohamed Soliman and his attempt to reveal the impact of genocide on his immediate surroundings, his family's surroundings, and his city. In parallel, Azza attempts to "imagine" what similar devastation or destruction could do to her own surroundings in Cairo. We are shown what genocide and destruction produce, and in parallel, does following the impact of disaster make Cairo another Gaza? So that our destiny becomes shared, as it already is, and the act of imagination becomes more than just an unbearable act.


خيال يصعب تحمله

تكشف اللوحات الثلاثة حدود فكرة التعاطف أو مشاركة آلام الآخرين ولكن في ذات الوقت تفتح أفق عما يشترطه فعل التعاطف: امتداد فعل الكارثة لواقعنا ومعايشته.

تحاول الفنانة عزة عزت مجاراة عمل الفنان محمد سليمان ومحاولته لكشف أثر الإبادة على محيطه المباشر ومحيط أسرته ومدينته,  وبالتوازي تحاول عزة "تخيل" ما يمكن أن يفعله خراب أو دمار مماثل في محيطها هي في القاهرة.

يظهر لنا ما ينتجاه الإبادة والدمار وفي توازي, هل  تتبع أثر الكارثة تصبح القاهرة غزة أخرى؟ ليصبح المصير مشترك، كما هو بالفعل كذلك، ويصبح فعل التخيل أكثر من مجرد فعل يصعب تحمله.

Gaza Biennial- Istanbul pavilion poster, 2025

The work details and the Exhibition photos

Azza Ezzat, The elevator shaft, pen & ink oh paper, 60x80 cm, 2025

    Between the Planned and the Lived - Solo, Cairo, 2025

    Between the Planned and the Lived

    Azza Ezzat

    31st May 2025

     

    About Contemporary Cairo we Talk

    We  present Cairo neither as an ancient, historical image nor as a modern  one viewed from a distance, but rather as a living city shaped by its  inhabitants, where formal planning collides with lived, daily reality,  creating complex visual compositions that express the city as  experienced in its fleeting moments and constant transformations.

    In  her works, Azza observes invisible layers of Cairo, shaped by memories,  impressions, and daily encounters, blending visual documentation with  personal impressions.


    Proceeds will support ongoing efforts by the Sultan Foundation in development projects in the Qaitbey neighbourhood.


    عن القاهرة المعاصرة نتحدث
    لا نقدَّم القاهرة كصورة  قديمة تاريخية, ولا حديثة نشاهدها عن بعد ، بل كمدينة حيّة تتشكّل بأيدي سكانها, حيث يصطدم التخطيط الرسمي مع الواقع المعاش واليومي، لتخلق تكوينات بصرية مركّبة تعبّر عن المدينة كما تُختبَر في لحظاتها العابرة وتحوّلاتها المستمرة.
    ترصد عزّة في أعمالها طبقات غير مرئية من القاهرة، صاغتها الذكريات والانطباعات واللقاءات اليومية، في مزيج بين التوثيق البصري والانطباعات الشخصية


    يُخصص عائد المبيعات لدعم جهود التنمية التي تعمل عليها مؤسسة السلطان للتنمية في حي قايتباي.

    Between the planned and the lived posterl, 2025

    Photos of Between the Planned and the Lived Solo

      Written about 'Between the Planned and the Lived'

      In press

      Between the Planned and the Lived, 2025

      BA 11th Artist's book Biennial, Alexandria, 2024

        Skinscapes: Tracing Spatial Phantom - Solo, Cairo, 2024

        Skinscapes: Tracing Spatial Phantoms

        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

        Azza Ezzat, Total collapse, Acrylic on canvas, 180x80cm, 2024

        Azza Ezzat, Total collapse, Acrylic on canvas, 180x80cm, 2024

        photos of Skinscapes' Solo

          Written about 'Skinscapes'

          In press

          Skinscapes, 2024

          Tarakom تراكم - Duo, Cairo, 2023

          Tarakom تراكم

          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

          Tarakom Exhibition poster, Design by: Azza Ezzat, 2023

          Tarakom Exhibition poster, Design by: Azza Ezzat, 2023

          photos of Tarakom Duo

            Written about 'Tarakom'

            In press

            Tarakom, 2023

            Malaz (group exhibition), Alexandria, 2022

            Malaz Exhibition poster, Design by: Shelter Art space 

              The Egyptian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennial, Venice,

              Robabecciah the informal city

              Commissioner: Egyptian Ministry of Culture

              Curators: Islam Elmashtooly and Mouaz Abouzaid


               The Egyptian pavilion at the Biennale Architettura proposes the theme of  strategic redevelopment of spontaneous commercial spaces across the  entire country. The phenomenon of ‘free’, unstructured, often illegal,  trading is predominant in many urban and suburban areas. The traditional  souk is no longer confined to narrow streets and interstitial spaces of  historical areas. Indeed, the space of commerce extends its tentacles  seamlessly along the lines of urban streams without any rule. The  project for the pavilion focuses on these strategic spaces, but also on  their content. The trading of ‘roba becciah’ is a large portion of all  market activities. Disused items produced and dismissed by consumerist  societies are first collected, and then stacked in areas creating  mono-functional enclaves for future trading. The ‘roba becciah’  represents an important metaphor of the anthropological-urban condition  of the modern world. The re-design of the ‘urban market’ seeks  rethinking and the role of ‘free space’ within the dense morphological  and social fabric of the city. It is a proposal that aims at the  upgrading and ‘governance’ of large urban areas allowing a ‘free use’  that contributes to a better living of contemporary metropolises. 


              My participated work: 

              Khairallah raw sketche 2016

              Robabecciah the informal city, The Egyptian pavilion, Venice architectural Biennial, 2018

              photos of Robabecciah the informal city, 2018

                Kh raw sketch in the making of the Egyptian pavilion (Bekea), Venice architectural biennial,  2018

                Dakart Biennial 2018, Darb 1718 Pavilion, Dakar, 2018

                  Something else, Cairo off-biennial, Cairo, 2018

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