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Hindered Absence

Hanya Elghamry

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Hanya is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Cairo, Egypt, working in a variety of media. She received her BAs in Visual Arts and Integrated Marketing Communication with distinction. Hanya has participated in several group exhibitions in London and Cairo, where she worked as a Senior Assistant Curator at an art institution for four years. She is currently studying for her MA Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins, UAL.

Hanya is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Cairo, Egypt, working in a variety of media. She ...

College Central Saint Martins

Course MA Fine Art

Our skin can "remember" the mutations of the moments it has suffered. In the process of remembering, we may create a space where we can probe our identities vis-à-vis the world, discussing the illusions created by our memories which are nearly always based on fragments of our reality. My work exposes the metaphorical that hides beneath the physical, the one representing society, its customs, traditions, conventions, and factors conditioning it. The installation draws attention to memories in a forgotten state, and the failure to track down the absent moments that are very evident in one's personal and cultural history.

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Door of Hindered Absence

Creating a cast of the furniture, walls and floors of an abandoned family house using latex, cotton cloth, and wood.

Drawer of Hindered Absence

Creating a cast of the furniture, walls and floors of an abandoned family house using latex, cotton cloth, and wood.

Sound piece of Hindered Absence

Echoed family conversations and laughter, reminiscing on the memories that took place in the abandoned family house of 10 years in Cairo, Egypt.

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”Skin remembers no matter how many years go by, Skin has lived, adapted, morphed and became. Skin knows what happened, and it knows why and how it happened. There is a power dynamic between skin and memory, as Memory knows how attractive it is to forget, and it seduces Skin to make it forget. But what Memory does not know is that the Skin might decide one day to remember.”

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## Official page
- https://ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk/project/338078/cover

## External
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanya-elghamry-b6594717a
- https://www.instagram.com/hanyaelghamry
- http://www.hanyaelghamry.com
- mailto:hanyaelghamry@gmail.com
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