My contribution pivots mainly around understanding space and creating possible methods
of engaging with and configuring that space, in an attempt to understanding and
“humanizing” the urban space in Cairo, I have been trying to experiment and expand the
ways through which my experience of the city as a citizen overlaps and informs my artistic
interests and concerns.
Since the modernization process adapted Cairo to serve automobiles as a dominant unit,
cycling, walking and other human scale activities turned to be a resistance/resilience game
to reclaiming the right of the city. I began to play this game in navigating Cairo to
create/rebuild human landscape as an attempt to confront city intimidation. Then translate
the experience occurred into my alternative maps of the space and build different
connections within the City.
Azza Ezzat
is a Cairo based visual artist. She is interested in urban observations and detecting human
traces in the built environment. Between the formal governmental city and the informal community’s
reactions, Ezzat searches for hidden cities that are built by impressions, Memories and perceptions.
Through the work, a new city’s map is emerged from gained impressions.