Overview

Vessela Farid has made the difficult task of creating pure and instantly identifiable 'Egyptian Art' appear almost effortless. Her work is spectacularly local, managing to steer away from the superficial & foreign approach to her experience of the country. Her attention to the forms & body language of her subjects is brilliant, and the work boasts of its adamant refusal to falling victim of the romanticized Orientalist wash that most artists sweep across paintings of Egypt.