Original Story Published by: Hadani Ditmars, www.theartnewspaper.com
Photo Source: Walaa Al Shaer
(Above) Carole A. Feuerman’s Egyptian Woman in the form of the Goddess Hathor is one of 14 installations at this year’s exhibition
Within the desert landscape of Giza, Egypt, a statue of the goddess Hathor stands her ground, a surreal apparition perfectly aligned with the Great Pyramid.
The work, Egyptian Woman in the Form of the Goddess Hathor by the American artist Carole A. Feuerman, celebrates the deity of love, fertility, music and motherhood. It is one of 14 installations at this year’s edition of the annual Forever is Now exhibition, which opened on Friday.
Now in its fourth iteration, Forever is Now was the first and remains the only contemporary art exhibition to take place at the 4,500-year-old Pyramids of Giza—a Unesco World Heritage site— and its surrounding plateau. The exhibition was conceived by the French-Egyptian curator and collector Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, the founder of Culturvator / Art of Egypte, which seeks to put on “ground-breaking exhibitions that change… the way the world perceives contemporary art in Egypt”. Its annual exhibitions, of which Forever is Now is one, present contemporary Egyptian art in heritage sites that “link Egypt's rich history with its creative present”.
The show, with its aim to “bring together artists from around the world to reflect on the enduring legacy of one of humanity’s most compelling and mysterious structures”, takes place within a particularly complex geo-political context this year—with war in Gaza only around 220 miles away and drones infringing on Egyptian airspace.
While other cultural events in Egypt, including the annual El Gouna Film Festival and the Arab Music Festival and Conference in Cairo, have been postponed due to the situation in Gaza, Forever is Now has, perhaps bravely, moved forward with its programme.
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