Rawya Sadek is an Egyptian multidisciplinary visual researcher artist, translator (from French and English into Arabic), and writer based in Cairo. She held, since 1989, 14 solo exhibitions, and had participated in several local and international workshops and group exhibitions. Her current artistic interest lies in the scope of interactive works specifically in the field of contemporary Egyptian (her)story.
Rawya has been working for seven years on a multi-disciplinary art project on Egyptian feminist writer and poet Doria Shafik. She has translated a collection of selected poems by Doria Shafik, “Avec Dante Aux Enfers”, to be published soon hopefully.
This project began with a solo exhibition at Townhouse Gallery in Cairo that was entitled “On Coincidence, Old Age and Depression” in March 2017. After that, she produced a publication entitled “A Trilogy of Time in Doria Shafik’s 1960s” in November 2019 with Medrar for Contemporary Art.
Rawya is currently working on the third and last part of the project which covers the years between 1970 – 1975 in Shafik’s life and work. Rawya experiments with different artistic tools and has participated in Live Praxes #2 “Written to be Spoken” workshop, in which she contributed with “Tiny moments of solitude” reflecting on Shafik’s forced solitude and her own.
In 2022, she exhibited with 2 other artist at the CIC gallery, Retrieving the absent-general title, and “dilated time” for her work, which ended by a lecture table, and facilitated with young artist Alia Bassiouni a workshop on the Doria Shafik social and cultural time (1957-1975)
She is now writing her book “the last summer”, on the last years before Doria’s suicide.
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