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ifa Gallery Berlin
19.5. – 20.8.2006
ifa Gallery Stuttgart
10.11.2006 – 7.1.2007

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Worlds of Islam

Nafas
Contemporary Art from the Islamic World
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The purple artificial forest, 2005

 

Amal Kenawy

Born in 1974 in Cairo, Egypt; lives there.

Amal Kenawy has created the animated drawings as a result of an eight month long journey to herself. Like in a dream, she writes in a poem, she has created a "purple artificial theatre". Images superimpose other images, merge into each other, melt into new motifs: home furniture, human body parts, a bed surrounded by high-tension poles, hands, legs, a face, a tree, a spider, lilac blots, tree branches growing from legs, the lattice of a cot that turns into increasingly narrowing walls of a staircase leading into the deep of the room…

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Online magazine

The exhibition "Nafas" is part of a project that is conceptually connected to the online magazine "Contemporary Art from the Islamic World". The magazine is published by the ifa in collaboration with Gerhard Haupt and Pat Binder.   mehr



 
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