Medrar Projects Fluttering Selfhoods Fluttering Selfhoods

Fluttering Selfhoods

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PORTO ALEGRE, BRASIL

13 June 2012 - 14 July 2012

Generally this program, “Fluttering Selfhoods,” focuses on the importance of transcending to the perspective of young art practitioners on the current situation in Cairo through diverse productions of individual-low budget videos. In the program presented, narration or story telling builds up the skeleton and connects the works together, nevertheless with diverse approaches to the topic and addressing a variety of issues compiled in the contemporary Egyptian society. Dealing mainly with concerns of a merge from cultural, political and economical statuses, through questioning identity, relationships, parenthood, aggression and freedom.

Asmaa and Hind El kolaly

The Princess, 3min, 2009

In The Princess, El Kolely explores the concept of the sacrifice as an offering of an animal or the surrender of something treasured or the loss of a valuable entity.

Bio
Twin sisters born in 1985.Studied in the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University. Their artwork is the result of shared thoughts that tackles issues concerned with the identity and the society. El Kolely’s work has been exhibited in several local and international exhibitions.

Shereen Lotfey

A Letter to A Lover, 2min, 2007
“And immediately I started to load the guns and rifles with gunpowder and Firady helped me with it….”

Bio
Born in Cairo in 1987, Shereen studied Applied Arts faculty, Graphic department. Shereen lives and works in Cairo, In her art work, takes on subjects that aggravates her and those around her, and she deals with it directly which translated into an art work that communicates with the person watching it, so that the user would interact with it, A video is to be used to reach the audience by all possible means. She has participated in many international exhibitions and event “ONE MINUTE” International and Film Festival at Aarau Switzerland, “Bidoun Magazine Video Program” at Art Dubai Festival, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, “The Pick 4” Exhibition at the Townhouse Gallery, “Detour” The Third International Video Festival at (CiC) Cairo.

Hosam Elsawah

Kekh, 6 min, 2007
Trivial story telling by an extraordinary person reflects the mixed up consequences of his surroundings.

Bio
Born in 1984 Cairo, he Graduated from Faculty of Art Education , Helwan University. Exhibitions : 2008 The Biennial of Contemporary Art ” biacs 3″ Spain2008, The Bidon Artists Cinema ” Art Dubai Festival” 2007, DV theque project, meeting points 5, 2007 Second video Festival at CIC 2007, The Pick3 at the Town House Gallery 2007.

Ahmed Elshaer

Don’t Resign, 3min, 2008
In a recent became accepted among Egyptians is the situation and relax away from liability self direction or the direction of home away from duty and not claim the rights and intercepted a discreet step down and making it all tell them what to Gamal Abdel Nasser, Don’t Resign

Bio
Born in Cairo, Egypt in 1980; lives and works in Egypt.
Ahmed El Shaer is a photographer, video and installation artist. His videos combine a diversity of time-based elements: film, machinema, stock footage, ambient and synthetic sounds as well as three-D animation.

Yara Mekawei

Volume, 2min, 2010
In the digital system the master and slave had a harmonic volume tracks.
They said some Sentences which meant many of Conventions in our life.

Bio
Born in Cairo, Egypt 1987, Graduated from the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan Uni., Cairo.
Works in a Visual and Audio Art, and live electronic music, She interested in make a connection between the abstract symbols and human relations in her Art works by different ways. Also recently she beginning her new concept about the “Hidden Dynamic Random Access Memory “,this concept showed in art projects parts. She wants to make a connection between our memory and what we listen to in our relationships.

Nada Zatouna

Short film “more or less”, 11:20, 2010
Two women.. Director and a young lady working as a lawyer, Working together on a documentary film. Expected delivered in specific date. Time is over and they discovered many things about relationships and passive time.

Bio
Nada Zatouna. Born in Cairo, graduated from the Cairo Jesuit’s cinema school, worked as an assistant director for independent films since 2006. She created several short films: “Mom?”, “Sudanese Chili”, production of Nadim Center in cooperation with European Union.
[07:58:12] dia4all: “Ice Cream”. “Who are you?!”, “Black Shoes”, “a short film More or Less”, “full length dress” ( in editing phase), production of Cairo Jesuit’s cinema school

Ahmed Nabil

The Trip, 18:47, 2009
Some footage from my very first trip to Europe, edited with a voice-over from dialogues with two Egyptian friends about some sociopolitical issues

Bio
Got his BFA in painting at the faculty of Fine Arts. In Alexandria, Egypt. During his last years in the faculty he got more interested in filmmaking. So got involved in a two years filmmaking workshop that helped him develop some techniques related to shooting and editing. After doing one short narrative film he turned into experimental filmmaking and video art, making a use of his painting background.