Table for Two
"Remember we are complete strangers and I don’t have pre-judgments on you more than you already have for yourself.
Be as free as you can though it seems that our relationship may be new but you already knew me for a long time, if you dug a little deeper surely you'll know, If you want."
Artists imagine something else for Egypt..
The most striking piece in one of Al-Ismaelia’s buildings was “Table for Two” by Egyptian artist Haytham Sherif where a figure in a glass vitrine stands opposite a table and chair in a kind of cinematic scene that invites the viewer to sit and write a message. Like many of Something Else’s artworks, the piece invoked the universal human condition. “This is a very emotional work and I wanted to share that with people,” Sherif explained of his figure that took him three years to finish. “People dealt with him as a human being, rather than as a statue or representative of something, and in their letters many left long notes where they talked with him openly and freely.
By l Angela Boskovitch
yourmiddleeast
February 24, 2016
