Ana Teresa Vicente, Sally Samaan and Natalia Jordanova: These three female media artists from Europe and the Arab region were invited in Cairo by the Goethe-Institut Cairo and Brussels together with Cairotronica to participate in a Media Arts Residency from 22.08.-19.09.2023 and showcase their work in an exhibition from 08.09. to 11.09.2023.
The opening of the collective exhibition took place on the 8th of September at 7:00 pm in Galerie Takhshīna² at Goethe-Institut Cairo in Downtown in the presence of the artists. For the closing on the 11th of September, the artists presented their work and gave a tour at 6:00 pm. The exhibition was very successful, and all the artists had the space to show and highlight their works.
The three of them together with the Egyptian artist Sabah Khaled Abouelhadid Elsayed Hassan took part in a residency organised in the framework of the project Halaqat at and with iMAL in Brussels, Belgium, in spring 2022. For two weeks, they could produce and experiment autonomously in the FabLab, building on each other’s expertise. In Egypt, they will continue working on their projects or develop new ideas that they will present at the exhibition organised at Goethe-Institut Cairo Downtown.
The residency is part of the project Halaqat which explores the cultural links between Europe and the Arab worlds and aims to connect experts, partners, and artists from both shores.
The first Halaqat Media Arts Residency took place in spring 2022 at iMAL in Brussels. It was organised by the Goethe-Institut and Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts Brussels together with iMAL and Cairotronica and co-funded by the European Commission.
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Syrian, living in the Netherlands Sally Samaan
Sally Samaan is a multidisciplinary artist with an MA in Media, Art, Design and Technology. Her work focuses on human interactions, communication, and emotional states in order to better understand ourselves. Her recent work handles the fragility of our reality in between the physical and digital worlds. She approaches the topic by blending and merging the two worlds to a point where new realities arise, along with new perceptions of ourselves and the world around us.
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Egyptian Sabah Khaled Abouelhadid Elsayed Hassan
Sabah is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and information designer based in Cairo, Egypt. She completed her BA. in Graphic Design at Germany university in Cairo. Her body of work revolves around questioning and hypothesizing the essence of a scientific study while bridging the gap between science and society into a visual that could be perceptibly touched and better understood.
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Portuguese Ana Teresa Vicente
Ana Teresa Vicente is an artist and researcher based in Lisbon, Portugal. She holds a PhD in Photography by the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, attained with a research fellowship from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT, PT). She has been presenting her work in exhibitions, lectures, and publications regularly since 2005. In 2020, she started her ongoing project Transtopia, which focuses on maps, terrestrial borders, and the act of being in transit, at In-Situ Artist Residency (Hong Kong) with a grant from Fundação Oriente. Currently, she’s a member of Archivo: Photography and Visual Culture Research Network (Porto, PT), and a lecturer at ESAD.CR (Caldas da Rainha, PT).
Bulgarian, living in the Netherlands Natalia Jordanova
Natalia Jordanova (born in 1991, Sofia, Bulgaria) is an Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary artist. As part of an ever-developing quest for possible worlds, Natalia's artistic practice is a subjective synthesis and material proposition of what defines the present moment. She builds context-aware installations through her interdisciplinary approach and deployment of various practices. She holds an MA from the Dirty Art department of Sandberg Institute in The Netherlands (2020), BA in Fine Arts from Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (2018), BA in Photography from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Bulgaria (2013). Her work was exhibited in various exhibitions in The Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria and the UK.
