Sarah Rifky is a curator and writer based in Cairo, Egypt. She is the co-founder of the Beirut art initiative.
Multidisciplinary artist Ash Moniz has turned art-making into aid relief for Gaza
The prevailing impression across most venues is that this is an exhibition in reverse
Rifky considers the complex dynamics of ownership and provenance in Egypt’s contemporary art scene.
Mario. The Exhibitionist — the art journal, not a naked person flashing — once asked me to contribute an essay to their “Curator’s Favorites” series. I decided to write about…
A woman lies in the grass, Odalisque-like, but in a dress, shielding her eyes from the sun. A larger portrait shows a dark-haired woman in a delicately floral shirt, craquelures…
While I was studying for a teach-in I co-organized for students in the US on Palestine and Israel last year, I asked my friends how I might approach it, and…
«Keeping one in the room even when they aren’t is never only about the person you're trying to hold»
«ach time I come across a new photograph of Laila Soueif, I’m engulfed by a nameless feeling. It is»
«I want to focus on life and not death, on natality and not mortality»
«Revolution is not a given, but a constantly changing concept.»
«We need a lucid world, and sobriety, to reimagine what is to come. »
«Break the cycles of economic acceleration and crisis. Slow down. Then things will start changing.»
