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underwear model figure cairo egypt elfallah aya exhibtion Opening

Reviews :

Article by Sara Elkamel,Saturday 8Feb 2014
Ahram online " New exhibition displays diversity and talent of Egypt's young women artists"

"Aya El-Falah's solemn paintings depicting women with their underwear over their clothes, and a bearded man dressed merely in his white undergarments. Coated in blue and white hues, the paintings bring to mind Pablo Picasso's blue period. The pieces also bear a resemblance to Egyptian artist Samir Fouad's portraits, which are characterised by almost trembling features, as if the paint has been inadvertently smudged.

The artist believes that society either completely sensationalizes underwear or otherwise, tries to pretend it does not exist. El-Falah strikes back through bringing those undergarments to the fore. By doing so, the artist says she attempts to question the cultural taboos and prescribed gender roles and expectations that she finds outlandish.

“My work is generally either strongly supported or strongly rejected by people, but I will continue to tackle subjects that touch me personally,” she says.

El-Falah says that two of her paintings were eliminated from the Youth Salon for being "obscene." The artist is pleased that the paintings could be shown at Al-Hanager though. “Showing my art to the public is a form of therapy, a release," she says. "
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/25/93741/Arts--Culture/Visual-Art/New-exhibition-displays-diversity-and-talent-of-Eg.aspx
Article by Sara Elkamel,Saturday 8Feb 2014
Ahram online " New exhibition displays diversity and talent of Egypt's young women artists"

Thursday, December 26, 2013
By: Mai Elwakil

"It is difficult to tell if the two paintings Aya El Fallah is showing at the Youth Salon are based on snapshots from the street, as she has decontextualized her characters and backgrounds, and uses minimal colors in the work. The portraits do, however, evoke a sense of eeriness. As with much of Fallah’s work, she has erased the features of her characters. And both stand barefoot, wearing their undergarments on top of their clothes.

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