b. Cairo, Egypt 1985
Mai Al Shazly is an Egyptian visual artist, visual researcher and a potter based in Cairo. She works with photography, film, writing and recently re-appropriating archival material in different
Mediums. Her work has been shown in several exhibitions. She has participated in Paris Biennale des Photographes Du Monde Arabe Contemporain 2019, and was nominated for an artist residence in Switzerland and exhibited her work during Verzasca Foto Festival 2018, as well as participating in a collective work at Biennale Africaine de la photographie at BAMAKO 2017.
Most recently, she received a self-organization fund through Mophradat 2021, worked on a video and experimental film production through Goethe Institute Kairo in collaboration with CIC – Contemporary Image Collective – 2017, received a production grant through Pro Helvetia Cairo 2016.
Al Shazly ’s work focuses on identity and its relationship with the surrounding environment and the current political issues. In her upcoming work, she speaks about the colonial debris at the dinner table and the continued production of imperial modes of thinking that comes with their reproduced objects.
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