Haytham Nawar Art Portfolio

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Hand2010

90 x 90 cmPrivate Collection

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Underwater2007

200 x 165 cm

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Hand2006


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Hands2006


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Relax2006

100 x 70 cmMinistry of Culture

Administration of Cultural Palaces, Cairo.

Pain2006

100 x 70 cmMinistry of Culture

Administration of Cultural Palaces, Cairo.

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The Other 1, 22005

200 x 200 cm

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Fear 3 2005

100 x 70 cmMairie de Sarcelles, France.

Fear 12005

100 x 70 cm

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The Square 12004

160 x 160 cmThe Museum of Modern art, Cairo

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The Square 2004


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“13 / 49”2009

Video InstallationProjection on 2 walls + Head phones with 1 sound track

4:32 min. loop

Miedan Al-Àttaba - Schlieren ZentrumAbou’Elfeda Zamalek - Hegibachplatz In a daily journey of the buses Nr 49 in Cairo and Nr 31 in Zurich I take the viewer on a discovery trip trough the two cities. The camera shows the rich variety of faces of the bus passengers, which belong to different social layers of the cities` population.

With the eyes of an Egyptian artist who lived most of his life in the metropolis Cairo we experience a bus journey from the heart of the city, witin’ the middle of the chaos (Miedan Al-Àttaba) to the Nile river side and Zamalik, where upper classes and rich foreigners live.

Through the eyes of an Egyptian foreigner who has been living the last two years in Zürich, we experience the cultural and financial heart of “Multi-Kulti”-Switzerland. The bus trip leads from the chaotic workers foreigners’ suburb Schlieren to the rich district of Hegibachplatz, presenting a city with over hundred nationalities. I am in between.

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Shifting Senses2009

Sound Installation6 speakers quad surround + 2 speakers for speech

A channel mixer + Audio interface + One UV light unit15:26 min.

Shifting senses is an artistic research experiment aiming to enhance the human instincts which the society is gradually losing. The experiment is presented artistically because art does not target a certain category of people. Art addresses the human in general.

It’s an experimental environment, generated by new technologies that contain significant interaction possibilities in physical space.

Recordings of sounds of old Egyptian streets with different scenes and effects will be played and accompanied with the description of a blind person to a sighted person and vice versa.

This dialogue between the sighted and the blind takes the audience through a perceptual sound space, which can be experienced and understood within a contemporary fine art context.

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The Porter of Egypt - Sheal Masr2009

Photography (Screen print)

The porters of Egypt are workers of the railway station of Cairo, who carry daily the burden of the country.Considered to be a marginalized group of the Egyptian society, the porters are still Egyptian and reflect the true Egyptian.Simple, complacent in spite of the «circumstances». Their faces are carved, representing the current social and political condition of the country.

The porters carry their own burden and the burden of others: their faces speak for the entire population of Egypt.I put my portrait within the porters because I consider myself and every Egyptian citizen a porter in his own way.

The selected Egyptian portraits are represented in a black color on a white background. The absence of colors and the solid white background devoid them from any decoration of life.The printmaking art gives life to the pictures and complements the dialogue between the recipient and the porters, printed and pasted on the walls.

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Urban aur(or)a borealisWith the designer Christian Blum

2008Digital Print

Urban design Competition, EVERYVILLE” - Venice, Italy

An artificial light line creates a story path, from one point of urban being in everyville to another.The light guides you through the known and the unknown areas of the city.The urban aur(or)a borealis, follows streets and pathes, goes to everywhere, through doors and widows into houses, courtyards, gardens even the no-man’s-land.Discovering (seeing) the inner world.The urban aur(or)a borealis is a warm, gradiant and colorful, cloudy light line instead of the normal public light.Random light lines meet together, creating the urban being of everyville.

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KIŠKISwith group of International artists

2008Light Performance

100 performer + Led LightThe Old city Villinuis - Lithuania

Masses of glowing rabbit ears move along the old city wall.They meet, disperse, and cluster into formation – in what appears to be random order.

Where did they come from? and where did they get their tickets? An urban, site-specific performance KIŠKIS involves 100 artists, students, and local inhabitants of Vilnius, volunteering to perform in this large-scale event. They walk, tracing the old city’s defensive wall – where it is still visible, and where it no longer exists. Attached to their backs and arms are long rabbit ears, lit up and lighting the dark. The ears shift and articulate, signal, point, turn and rest. They move together in pairs and in large groups, at times at a distance, at times in close proximity. As they respond to each other and interact with the environment, people passing by gather around to see. In the swarming movement, the public witnesses patterns emerge as if directed by a single will, then randomly unravel into disjointed and arbitrary situations.

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Emergency/Ambulance 123 2006

Video installationProjection on 3 walls + Plasma screen

1:40 min. (Looping)

The serine of the ambulance symbolizes a social protest against none reactions of several segments of the Egyptian modern society to emergency situations of different aspects.

The work combines visions reflected on the right, left side mirror and the front mirror of the ambulance…The mirror to the right featured traffic jam in Cairo during rush hour and those putting the audience in the desperate situation of the ambulance driver trying to make his way to save a human.

This desperate is shown on the tensioned face of the driver reflected in the front mirror calling upon people to make way.

The left mirror reflects a totally different mode of clear rode of peaceful green open area representing the contradictive status of the Egyptian modern society.A 4th screen shows a video of a hand straggling against death representing the deterioration in the Egyptian society.

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Once Upon a Time2005

Light installationProjected from top of a building 10m high and 40m

distant from projected facade Dimensions of projected area: L. m X W. m X H. m

Art and Light / Al Darb El Ahmar, Historic Cairo.

The work is a projection of the original image of the mosque of Prince Aslam El-Slihadar founded in 1345 on one of its facades, thus creating a virtual light restoration of the monuments.

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Aslam … A storyWith the artist Walaa Safaa El-Din

2005Light and sound installation

6 speakers quad surround + A channel mixer + Audio interface+ 8 Light Unites

Sound track: 2 min. (Looping)Dimensions of projected area: L.15m X W.4m X H.6m

Art and Light / Al Darb El Ahmar, Historic Cairo.

Its a story of a common day in an average alley in historic Cairo, looking upon the yard which holds the ancients mosque of Prince Aslam El-Silhadar.

The cycle of time is presented through projecting yellow light representing day since the break of dawn accompanied by the sound of call for the prayer and through the morning with the hustle sound of Cairo, then a shift to blue light representing night, with muted sound of stillness, till the break of down of the other day and so on.

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Human Existence/Sobhan Al hay Al Bakywith the artist Tarek Hawas

2003Video and photography

4 min.

The video is interplay between scenes; on one hand featuring grave yards which represent the final destination for human on earth.

The grave yards are located in a small Egyptian village (El-Sheen) home land.

And time of shooting was dusk, which represents the shift from light to darkness and this symbolizes the end of life by death, and this is emphasized by the gray scale mode of shooting.

And on the other hand it features people from several cultural backgrounds in the Egyptian society expressing their opinion of the reasons of their existence.

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