Azza Ezzat
visual artist

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visual artist

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      • Selected works
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      • acquired
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      • Essays
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    • Who I am
    • Current & Upcoming
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    • Selected works
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    • Early works
    • acquired
  • publications
    • Essays
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خط عشرة ROUTE 10 (2021-2025)

Route 10: Researching alternative ways of understanding urban reality of Cairo

Artworks & visual research: Azza Ezzat

Text & research: Aya Nassar - Ismail Albahar

Sensorial snapshots 2021
Sensorial Details 2024
Unmaking route 10 (artist book 2025)

Sensorial Snapshots, 2021

part 1 of "Route. 10" project

In this series of panoramic ink on paper drawings, artist Azza Ezzat explores the primary visual, auditory and olfactory layers of “route 10”, a highway connecting east Cairo to the northeast suburbs of Obour, where the artist’s family lives. The drawings are part of a work-in-progress for a much larger project examining the ways in which the metropolitan city of Cairo is changing and the possible connections and relationships that residents of the city can develop as non-vehicle owners.

As a resident of the city who does not own a private vehicle and has chosen to use alternative means of transportation, Azza was exposed to an alternative multifaceted, multilayered experience of the

highways connecting different parts of Cairo.

The layers reveal a sensorial map that would otherwise be completely lost if navigated otherwise

Sensorial Snapshots, 2021, 7 ink on paper drawings,

various dimensions (average size 70×15cm)

    Sensorial Details, 2024

     part 2 of "Route. 10" project

    An attempt to  imagine visual details of the primary non-visual layers of “route 10

    Citrus smell detail 02, pen & ink on paper, 35x50 cm, 2024

      Unmaking Route10, 2025

      Part 3 of "Route. 10" project

      We would like to unmake the road as a single, unitary slice of  asphalt that a map would show and instead sit with a complex sensorial  map. We won’t take you on a walk or a drive either. Instead, we  experience the road through the artistic practice of one of us, Azza  Ezzat.  


      Azza Ezzat - Aya nassar - Ismail Albahar

        References:

        Barak, On. “ Scraping the surface: the techno-politics of modern streets in turn-of-twentieth-century Alexandria”, Mediterranean Historical Review, 24:2, 187-205, 2009.


        Cowen, Deborah. “Infrastructures of Empire and Resistance” Verso blogs. 2017. url: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/3067-infrastructures-of-empire-and-resistance


        Ezzat, Azza et.al. Route 10 project (2022-2024), research based art project, https://azzaezzat.art/route-10


        Mossallam, Alia. “We are the ones who made this dam ‘High’!” A builders’ history of the Aswan High Dam. Water history, 6, 297-314. 2014.

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