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TO THE SQUARE 2
Curated by Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen Commissioned by Checkpoint Helsinki as part of Helsinki Festival The 7th iteration of the Re-Aligned Project of Perpetuum Mobilε Lasipalatsi Square, Helsinki 22-31 August, 2014 Read the FULL PROGRAMME On the heels of … Continue reading
Jasmina Metwaly
Jasmina Metwaly (EG/PL) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Cairo. She studied painting in Poznan where she focused on time-based works with strong correlations to painting. She is co-founder of 8784 h project. Following the revolution that ousted … Continue reading
Hany Rashed
With the ongoing changes taking place in Egypt, Hany Rashed constantly explores artful possibilities and attempts to produce innovative, fresh works. Hany Rashed was out in the streets for best part of the last three years. His ceaseless creative activity … Continue reading
Moisireen
Mosireen is a non-profit media collective in Downtown Cairo born out of the explosion of citizen media and cultural activism in Egypt during the revolution. The collective consists of filmmakers, activists and others who got together to found a communal … Continue reading
Hefnawy
Ahmed Hefnawy came to contemporary art late, as the art director and senior illustrator for a advertising company. With experience ranging from Arabic calligraphy, to oil and pastel painting, Hefnawy’s first major contribution was as an installation, in December 2013, … Continue reading
Ammar Abo Bakr
Works: Paintings on wood for BACK TO (THE) SQUARE 1 Mural for TO THE SQUARE 2 Ammar Abo Bakr studied at Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department, at Luxor University, where he now teaches. His passion to educate … Continue reading
Ganzeer
ON THE MOVE / SAFE HAVEN ARTIST Contributor to RE-PUBLIC Contributor to BACK TO SQUARE 1 Ganzeer is the nom de plume of the graphic designer and artist from Cairo whose street images have come to epitomize the Egyptian Revolution … Continue reading
Hamdy Reda
Hamdy Reda is a visual artist, photographer, graphic designer, curator. He is the founding-director of Artellewa Art Space in Ard Ellewa, a popular district of Cairo. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1997 and lives and works … Continue reading
Khaled Jarrar
Works: For BACK TO (THE) SQUARE 1: Hunger Wall (performative action and installation of Finnish round bread and wood), Sea Level (video), Diver in Ramallah, (Photo-print on foil under plexiglass), Concrete (video), Football (sculpture). See installation views. For TO THE SQUARE … Continue reading
BACK TO (THE) SQUARE 1 : Programme / e-flux
Curated by Marita Muukkonen and Ivor Stodolsky of Perpetuum Mobilε Commissioned by Checkpoint Helsinki as part of the RE-ALIGNED Project by Perpetuum Mobilε Should we be surprised by the snows of an Arab Winter, following the revolutionary Spring of 2011 … Continue reading
