Artist Azza Ezzat extends her gaze and presence to a more domestic and bodily space. Azza tries to explore different dimensions of an "interior space", meditating on questions of how her own body inhabits that domestic space. A deep exploration of her ongoing spatial practice, as she investigates the flip side of inhabiting a space and the possible traces that can be left behind in such a space
The painting is part of a new series the artist is working on, as she tries to explore different dimensions of an "interior space", meditating on questions of intimacy, interiority and domesticity.
Traces of A Bodily Encounter 01, Acrylic on canvas, 190x190 cm, 2022
“Kites, Billboards and Bridges” is a research project in which visual artist Azza Ezzat collaborated with geographer Aya Nassar to trace objects, old and new, that populated Cairo skies during COVID-19 lockdown.
Ezzat explores the primary visual, auditory and olfactory layers of “route 10”, a road parallel to the highway connecting east Cairo to the north-east suburbs of Obour,
Sensorial Snapshots _ Part of “Route 10” projects, 7 ink on paper drawings, various dimensions (average size 70×15cm), 2021
Azz Ezzat & Engy Mohsen
Not a Game, space based game/ art installation. colored tape on wall and ground, 2021
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)
This is not a landscape, pen & ink on canvas. 270x70 cm, 2021
Cycling through my neighborhood, Artist book, pen & ink on paper, 120x30 cm. 2018
The work tries to ask questions about what is traditional, formal/ informal, what is allowed or accepted with in urban clusters
Fomal Informals work is built on/ about Khairallah sketches and the district
Formal Informals, Pen & ink on paper. 594x76 cm, 2018
The sketch was part of the official Egyptian selection at the Venice Biennial, 2018.
It was also selected for Dakar Biennial 2018
pen on paper roll, 900x45 cm, 2016
In the 1950s, most of Cairo's land use, was primarily agricultural. By time, the land was converted to red-brick built informal houses.
High Voltage is a representation of a vital entrance to Cairo, the 26th of July Corridor, which was mainly agricultural farmland. It was slowly replaced by the gigantic corridor and a good deal of farmland was removed or parcelled out to be transformed into urban residential buildings with "high voltage towers", being built right in the middle of the fields.
Pen & ink on canvas, 180 cm x 120 cm, 2012
private courtesy, 2014