Photo by: Abdel Rahman Zein el Din

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, to an exhibition at the abandoned “Hotel Vienoise” in Cairo. Joining Ganzeer, Hany Rashed and Ammar Abu Bakr for “K/harya”, this self-organised group show played on the close proximity of the words “freedom” and “shit” in Arabic.