Forever is Now international exhibition is back on the Giza Plateau after last year’s success, which was the first of its kind contemporary art exhibition to include the Egyptian pyramids, organizing company Art D’Egypt announced.
“Forever is now 2” features twelve artists from around the world. Among them, is French photographer JR with his installation Giza Inside Out, a pyramid-shaped photo booth in which each participant will receive a black and white photo. The portraits will be placed on billboards in front of the pyramids as ephemeral messages against the backdrop of ancient monuments.
The Italian artist Emilio Ferro created the Portal of Light. Inspired by two ancient Egyptian papyri, The Book of the Dead and Amduat, or Records of the Secret Hall, the piece touches on the boundary between the world of the living and the dead.
The Guardians of the Well by Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed al-Faraj is part of the Thirst series, which explores people’s connection to water and air. The installation uses rusty pipes from dry springs on Egyptian farms.
Zeinab Al Hashemi of the United Arab Emirates built an unfinished obelisk (“The Unfinished Camouflage Obelisk”), the Egyptian Thérèse Antoine created the “Pantheon of the Divines”, and the British-American sculptor Natalie Clarke was inspired by the “Spirit of Hathor”.
“Empathizing with art in the public space, the exhibition depicts the future associated with a deep knowledge of the past, showing that without history there is no idea of the future, and without the present, there is no time,” the organizers say. to tell.
Forever Is Now 2 will run until November 30th.