A reconfirming of me being the main-character in your life
Pictures taken for a potential photoshoot (which did not happen 🤠). Last 2 pictures are sold as an exclusive NFT collectible
Excerpts from the artist talk of the ‘Untold Stories’ exhibition:
1) On why I started studying theology. 2) My analysis of the story of Spider-man and how duality is a big theme in it and 3) how it relates deeply to the life of Muslims living in the west. 4) Why Spider-man and I basically live the same life and 5) how I’ve been spending more energy on the ‘setting-of-boundaries’ throughout my project
The Muslim-Arab Spiderman: the answer to the question: ‘what would Spiderman look like, if I was Spiderman?’
1. Me and my partner-in-crime on exhibition day
2. A closer look at the floral-spider design
3. A closer look at the flowy sleeves and the spider’s legs that follow them
4. Sneak picture from behind
5. A closer look at the back of the suit
6. Frog-view of spiderman’s off-duty shirt and his favorite book
7. Spiders specially designed to accommodate Muslim Arab Spiderman
8. Combined, the spider’s are lined up to make up an mosque-arch shape
Part of the one night POV-exhibition we (@pkenawy and I) did in Egypt.
In response to the multitude of times we we’re asked to proof our Egyptian background, we printed fake Egyptian-ID stickers.
For the one night POV-exhibition we(@pkenawy and I) did in Egypt, I blended all I saw and experienced in Cairo unto a soccer shirt
1) me in front of the print-shop
2) front of shirt printed with (part of) the sayings: something sweet to sweeten your mouth / that man over there is not from Cairo / a table keeping count of how many people called me ‘Egyptian’ and ‘not Egyptian’ / the medicine for all sadness
3) back of the shirt printed with (part of) the sayings: Egypt is dear to us / don’t you want any honey / i am also an Egyptian (designed by @maramalrefaei )
4) freshly printed shirt in the print shop
5) description of the art piece
6/7/8) shirt hanging at the pov-exhibition
9) shirt-detail of 3omar (my name) deconstructed into separate letters to make it look like the license plate of Egyptian cars
Ramadan Kareem.
