Aziz art November 2018

Baladi draws from influences from
both Western and Islamic
traditions, creating "fantastical,
playful surveys of history, culture
and personal reflection."
Sandouk el Dounia is a huge
composition of hundreds of
scanned photographs. The name
of the piece references traditional
street theater for children in
Cairo.Sandouk was presented in
2009 at the Queens Museum of
Art's group exhibition
Tarjama/Translationand in 2011 at
the Venice Biennial's group show
Penelope’s Labor: Weaving Words
and Images. Reviewers called it "a
giant tapestry version of a photo
collage packed with images of
action heroines"
Installations
An enormous installation titled
"Al Fanous el Sehryn" (the Magic
Lantern) was shown at the
Townhouse Gallery in Cairo in
2003. The work consists of "a large
eight-pointed star constructed of
steel--approximately 23 feet in
diameter--and a series of light
boxes containing saturated
colored images produced from x-
ray
giving birth".[16] The art suggests a
cyclical nature where the images of
the doll endlessly grow up and then
giving birth over and over. The star
shape was inspired by the
chandeliers which hang in the
mosque of Mohammed Ali in the
Cairo Citadel.
Her installation Roba Vecchia was
presented in 2006 at the
Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, in 2007
at the Sharjah Biennal and in 2009
at Arabesques, an exhibition of
Arab contemporary art at the
Kennedy Center in Washington and
described as a "human-scale
kaleidoscope", that "incorporated
images from pop culture, then
shattered them in constantly
changing geometries", and in which
"the participant becomes
immersed in a psychedelic
environment where rapidly yet
systematically changing imagery
engulfs the viewer".
Borg el Amal (Tower of Hope), an
ephemeral construction and sound
installation, won the Grand Nile
Award at the 2008/2009 Cairo
Biennale.