This is Not a Landscape is an ongoing project that started in 2018 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.
Cycling through my neighborhood artist book, Pen & ink on paper, 212x8.5 cm, 2018
The artwork encapsulates the multilayered impressions and perceptions that I experienced as I was navigating through the city up to the point when pandemic restrictions of COVID-19 took place (roughly from 2018 to beginning of 2020)
Not a landscape shot 01, pen & ink on canvas, 25x25 cm, 2019
By: Ismail Fayed &ِ Azza Ezzat
Azza and Ismail invite other artists and practitioners in an open studio setting, in partnership with Medrar, to think about the ways in which this urban experience can be understood but also processed visually and artistically through different practices and mediums