Marwan El Gamal
Born in 1990, Marwan El Gamal is an Egyptian contemporary artist. His interdisciplinary practice spans painting, animation, and text with an interest in depicting the loss of the familiar through imagined storytelling and alternate remembrance. Interested in the driving's of culture and how images, stories, and traditions instill identity, he seeks to explore coherent narratives of the identity of the self and society by disrupting these anchor points of recognition as he draws from history, mythology, pop culture, archetypes, and personal memory. Invoking the mysterious, the uncanny, and otherworldly, his work depicts realms outside of recognizable locations and time, alternative maps for the viewer to experience novel connections with themselves and the world. The work seeks to place an indefiniteness to events where change is constant, addressing contradiction, resolution, familiarity, and foreignness. His work has been exhibited in Egypt, Spain, and the Netherlands. He received his MFA in Painting at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen, Netherlands, and his BA from the American University in Cairo, Egypt, in 2012.