Hisham El Zeiny
Egypt
email:
isham_el_zen@yahoo.de
Artist's Statement
"Burning Ends"
oil on canvas
5000 LE (US$ 835)
sold
Among the strongest symbols used during the Egyptian
revolution, painted, sprayed, or as graffiti, are the
cross and crescent, as a part of a huge patchwork of
visuals representing political identity or aspirations
for the future. Being inspired and influenced by the
events on the square, in all its gatherings, diversity
and fragmentation, I consider the tent as a very strong
symbol, as the tool to occupy the square and as a
carrier of information, slogans and agitation, also
serving for shelter and mobile hospital in the worst
cases.
In my work I imagine all these graphics, especially the
cross and crescent being applied on the tents fabric
and, as time goes by, them fading by the effect of
climate and sun, blending them together into one pattern
and so uniting them into one fabric. I call this work
burning ends, as a warning due to the potential of
conflict that still lurks at the periphery.
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