Domestic Fantasies
A selection of different Art mediums
(2019)
A selection of different Art mediums
(2019)
Domestic fantasies is a long term art and research project on the aesthetics and histories of family and domesticity in 1980s Egypt. The project started by tracing and collecting archival fragments of objects, photos, magazines, household materials complemented with several interviews using the oral history methods to reconstruct the life-worlds and afterlives of the middle class in Egypt.
I work through art as a medium to critically question the women's assigned gender roles and representations in the everyday and to open new imaginaries on the middle class aesthetics. The project’s output presents a variety of art mediums, questions and themes through each stage.
During this stage of the project, I developed a series of artworks during the Roznama 7 Studio program,
Artistically, my aim is to embody different meanings and possibilities of the verbs we usually use within the artistic process and techniques such as: to construct, to demolish and to stage.
This stage of the project was developed as part of Roznama 7 - Studio Program (2019), organized by Medrar for Contemporary Art, and with the support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and Al Ismailia for Real Estate Investment.
I work through art as a medium to critically question the women's assigned gender roles and representations in the everyday and to open new imaginaries on the middle class aesthetics. The project’s output presents a variety of art mediums, questions and themes through each stage.
During this stage of the project, I developed a series of artworks during the Roznama 7 Studio program,
Artistically, my aim is to embody different meanings and possibilities of the verbs we usually use within the artistic process and techniques such as: to construct, to demolish and to stage.
This stage of the project was developed as part of Roznama 7 - Studio Program (2019), organized by Medrar for Contemporary Art, and with the support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and Al Ismailia for Real Estate Investment.
Arabic discription of the project in Roznama 7 Studio program publication,
published by Medrar for contemporary art
Edited by Nour El Safoury, Hagar Ezzeldin and Marwa Elsayed, 2019
Design:Shahd El-sabagh
published by Medrar for contemporary art
Edited by Nour El Safoury, Hagar Ezzeldin and Marwa Elsayed, 2019
Design:Shahd El-sabagh
Domestic fantasies, installation, Mixed media, 2019
Photo credit: Mohammad Helmy
Domestic fantasies, Markers on transparent/colored stencil paper and recycled Rice paper, 2019
Photos credits: Mohammad Helmy
Domestic fantasies, printed phorography on canvas, 37
x 27 cm, 2019
Domestic fantasies, printed phorography on canvas, 2019
Photos credits: Mohammad Helmy
Domestic fantasies, installation, Mixed media, 2019
Photos credits: Mohammad Helmy
Domestic fantasies, charcoal on printed rice paper, 38 x25 cm, 2019
Photos credits: Mohammad Helmy
A Reproduction on family album, charcoal and mixed media on recycled rice paper, 2019
Photos credits: Mohammad Helmy