Bio
Azza Ezzat (B. 1980) is a Cairo based visual artist, with a background in architecture. She is interested in urban observations and detecting human traces in the built environment. Between the planning of the formal city and the reactions of informal communities, Ezzat searches for hidden cities that are built by impressions, memories and ever changing daily perceptions of the urban experience. Through her practice, Ezzat attends to fragments and shards of urban space, creating an altered and alternative map of the city.
Azza’s work is mainly a visual meditation on her surrounding environment. It combines both a documentary visual impulse, the traces observed through the everyday filtered through the chaotic realism of living in a city like Cairo, and an analytical approach that breaks down that chaos only to recreate it in non-linear form.
Through the use of different spatial strategies and different mediums, her work evolves as her experience of the city evolves. In that sense her artistic practice serves as a mnemonic attempt but also an invitation to think and try and see the possibilities and potential that lies beyond the drudgery of everyday movement in an urban landscape and what we are used to