Here, form is not defined by its solidity alone,
but by the silence of the space that surrounds it.
Figures dissolve into symbols, standing in quiet dialogue,
their distance not empty, but charged with possibility.
It is the void that speaks, the absence that defines presence.

Where human and animal meet in a single language,
the language of shifting forms, and of shadows that reveal the light.
These works are not mere masses of stone.
but fields of silent exchange,
a wordless conversation left for the viewer to complete.
For the void is no lack, but the extension that grants form its meaning.
It turns stillness into motion,
and makes of two forms meeting…
a universe unto itself.

About the Artist

Mahmoud El Dewihi, a Cairo-based artist, born in 1978. His hometown Aswan, in Upper Egypt, serves as his primary source of inspiration for the sculptor.

First studied commerce before turning to sculpture after revealing Adam Henein’s work and becoming one of his closest pupils. Following in the footsteps of his forefathers, he works with granite or bronze and demonstrates rural life through its inhabitants, whether peasants or fishermen, mostly along the Nile.

El Dewihi’s straight lines and smooth appearance reveal figures that appear to emerge from the past, through the centuries, as if immortal.