By: Mai Elwakil.
The organizing committee of the 24th Youth Salon has picked “Crossing into the future” as the theme for this year’s edition. The annual state-sponsored competition, meant to promote emerging local artists, opened on December 15 at Cairo’s Palace of Arts with 177 artworks. But few of the 155 artists exhibiting this year reflect in direct ways on Egypt’s ongoing political and economic ‘transition’.
The “Cellphone Diaries” are yet another response to street culture. Photographer Mohamed Ezz creates fantastic combinations of pictures he shot using his cellphone while wandering downtown Cairo’s streets. All printed in black and white, the photographs show the legs of a male model hovering over a street in mid air, shadows of cones from a street vendor’s cart stemming into the sky like dried palm trees, and a boat on the Nile river photographed from above with a shadow of buildings reflected underneath. The perspective Ezz presents of the city center is simultaneously exciting and unsettling.
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