^{Retrieving Absence (2022)}

^{Domestic Fantasies (2) - خيالات منزليه

Contemporary Image Collective, CIC Cairo (22 May-31 July)}

Curated by Andrea Thal and Ahmed Refaat. Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo
Works by Rawya Sadek, Hagar Ezzeldin, Nadia Mounier.

‘’ «Retrieving Absence» bringing together the latest articulations of three ongoing artistic projects. Through biographies, household materials, and family albums, the artists evoke the women they associate with through their biographies, photographs, and the handcrafted furniture of their homes. The three projects take research as a starting point, and produce, sometimes reproduce, what is absent or the time that has passed.’’ (Contemporary Image Collective ‘CIC’)

The Exhibtion is followed by Artist talk With Hagar Ezzeldin:
‘Seeing through the lenses of middle class families in Egypt‘ accompnied with the project production process documentation along with archival materials.

Featured in:

[English]

‘Middle-Class homes reimagined in new fair’, Alaa Kouddos Allah published by The Egyptian Gazette, June 2022, Egypt.

[Arabic]

Independent Arabia: ٣فنانات يستحضرن وجوها مصرية نسوية بفن الكولاج، ياسر سلطان، يوليو ٢٠٢٢
Al Araby: استحضار الغياب..خيالات في آلبوم اللاوعي واستعادة لدرية شفيق
Mada Masr: أنماط مختلفة من التذكر في «استحضار الغياب», حسين الحاج، يوليو ٢٠٢٢
Ashraq Al-awsat : استحضار الغياب، في القاهرة يستعيد مقتطفات من جماليات الماضي، نادية عبدالحليم، يونيو ٢٠٢٢

Wall: Uttlery beautiful, even though I failed to detect any irony in such a day. Spary Paint and stickers, 2022.

Photos credits: Mohamed Helmy

Wall: I went back to the sea. Spary paint, 2022
Photos credits: Mohamed Helmy

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Installation:
Household materials, cloth and stencil (2022)
Photos Credits: Mohamed Helmy

Installation:
Household materials, cloth and stencil (2022)
Photos Credits: Mohamed Helmy

Installation:
Household materials, cloth and stencil (2022)
Photos Credits: Mohamed Helmy

Drawings: Stencil and paper cuts on wallpaper, 2022
Photos Credits: Mohamed Helmy

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Drawings: Stencil and paper cuts on wallpaper, 2022
Photos Credits: Mohamed Helmy

Drawings: Stencil and paper cuts on wallpaper, 2022
Photos Credits: Mohamed Helmy

Photos Credits: Mohamed Helmy