Cairo's Mashrabia Gallery Participates in London Contemporary Art Fair

Cairo's Mashrabia Gallery is participating in the 1-54 African Contemporary Art Fair taking place in London; it kicked off on 3rd October, and will end on the 6th. Four artists supported by Cairo's  Mashrabia Gallery — Adel El Siwi, Carmine Cartolano (QarmQart), Heba Abu El Ella and Mustafa El Husseiny will exhibit their works during the 1-54 African Contemporary Art Fair.

During the fair, Qarm Qart will present his series of tarboushes adorned with creative elements, a collection inspired by Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy.

Work by Heba Abu El Ella

Cairo-based visual artist Mustafa Ali Saad El-Husseiny, is considered one of the one of the most imaginative emerging artists of the contemporary Egyptian art scene with Mashrabia Gallery describing his works as magical, symbolic, ironic and macabre.

Heba Abu El-Ella’s evocative boat represents at the same time a place inside oneself, where lots of forgotten memories, worries, fears and wishes lie.

Meanwhile, the 1-54 event is the first leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. The fairs take place on an annual basis in London (since 2012), New York (since 2015) and Marrakech (since 2018).

Work by Qarm Qart 

Noteworthy, the fair's name indicates the 54 African countries represented by the exhibition in an attempt to shed light on the richness of African cultures and create a dynamic dialogue and exchange between them.