ART74 VISUAL NARRATIVES exhibition at the Cairo Opera House is one of the events of the 45th Cairo International Film Festival, featuring a distinguished group of artists in the Hanager Hall. The works are inspired by one of the landmarks of Egyptian cinema, the film “The Mummy, the Day of Counting the Years” by Shady Abdel Salam.
The featured piece is titled “Sins of the father”.
In the grand theatre of existence, we are cast as players, born under the shadow of an unalterable fate: the inexorable march towards death. This life, offered as a sole option on the path to a moral demise, is a stage where choices define the essence of our being.
“Heaven and Earth bear witness today, as before you lie the twin paths of life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your progeny might endure on the day when the tally of years is taken.”
Drawing from two iconic scenes in Shady Abdel Salam’s cinematic masterpiece “The Mummy,” we delve into the profundity of three deaths: the serene yet deafening end of natural death, the abrupt cessation through murder, and the decay of a moral death. Each, a testament to the human condition and the eternal struggle between existence and essence.
The exhibition is also hosted in the rest of the Cairo Opera House halls, Salah Taher Hall, El Bab Hall, Radio Cinema, and Cairo Design District in the Fifth Settlement, and brings together a large group of diverse works between photography, new media, and interactive works.
