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Tea time with my lungs

Group exhibition featured three artists; Marwan El Gamal, Nada Baraka, and Soha El Sirgany exploring relationships between the human body, narratives, and spaces.

Their works consider ways in which the body’s organs and systems create internal, often unreliable, narratives in response to exterior happenings.

Between memories, coping mechanisms, traumas, and other incidents, the body becomes a hosting space – a theatre, room, city, or landscape – for
these narratives to play out.

Nada Baraka’s series of paintings ‘It Dangles It’ll Come Off’ offer a visual translation of trauma and the chain reaction it sets off.

Imagining interior spaces as parts of a city undergoing hundreds of small, secret, undefined processes, building up to a volcanic metamorphosis.

She captures the tension in moments when the body is on the verge of a tipping point, within a space that collapses as it expands and develops.

‘Tea time with my lungs’ was displayed at Soma Art gallery, Cairo, 2019.

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Quadrupled since 1990, acrylic and oil on canvas 110 x 210 cm , 2019

Conveyor, acrylic on oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm , 2019

Untitled, oil on paper 21 x 30 cm each, 2019.

Untitled, oil on paper 21 x 30 cm, 2019.

Untitled, oil on paper 21 x 30 cm, 2019.

Untitled, oil on paper 21 x 30 cm, 2019.

Untitled, oil on paper 21 x 30 cm, 2019.

Withstanding the vagaries, acrylic on oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm, 2019.

Untitled, acrylic and oil on canvas framed with plexi glass 120 x 40 cm, 2019.

Withstanding the vagaries, acrylic on oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm, 2019.

Untitled, oil on paper 30 x 42 cm, 2019.

Untitled, oil on paper 30 x 42 cm, 2019.

Untitled, oil on paper 30 x 42 cm, 2019.

Untitled, acrylic and oil on canvas framed with plexi glass 120 x 40 cm, 2019.

Untitled, acrylic and oil on canvas framed with plexi glass 120 x 40 cm, 2019.

Untitled, acrylic on oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm, 2019.