Amr Elkafrawy

Since the start of my artistic career, I have experimented with multiple art forms but have found myself most keen on drawing, painting and printing. I find myself always returning to classical forms as the drive for my own mode of self-expression, especially in regard to concepts that I am most intrigued by like the city, urbanization, and the social relations that develop within them. I always carry my camera around the city during my daily journeys to capture the presence of life in front of me, then for long hours, I go through the many spontaneous photographs that I took. I never know what caused me to identify with this photo or that; is it because of a strong presence? Or because of absolute solitude? 

I am interested in the poetics of spaces and the aesthetics of cityscapes, Urbanism and what inspires me the most are cities. I consider myself as a cityscape artist, sometimes I work with different concepts but I always go back to make more and more work about cities, and how they represent a collage of lives and destinies of their residents and visitors; of finding and defining the similarities and differences between people, buildings, districts, and streets in multiple different cultures and creating a visual pattern of these concepts. I would like to understand the impact of the cities on their residents; how cities were created and evolved, and what is the history of the buildings themselves. Also, I am interested in combining different art forms like poetry, photography, documents, drawings, maps, and old photography to recreate realistic prospects that reflect my ideas. 

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