Rania Fouad Ahmed
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Institutional Recommendation Program
update: 2019.10.29
Rania Fouad Ahmed
| Participating Project | Institutional Recommendation Program |
|---|---|
| Activity Based | Egypt |
| Period | 2014.1 - 2014.2 |
Purpose of the residency
I was staying in Japan from the years 2009 to 2012.After the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 2011, the atomic crises in Fukushima followed. I could feel some of my Japanese friends worried about radioisotopes in air and water; concerned about the basic things that might affect their lives. At the same time another tension was pervading in Egypt... People were revolting against a regime that has imposed its rules for so long. . As an Egyptian living in Japan I experienced hard times in both places. TWS is giving me a good opportunity to create one more project that draws lines between here and there, visualizing people's means of adaptation at the time of crises.
Plan during the residency
Throughout the residency I want to develop a stratum of images. For getting inspiration, I go on excursions around the place in Tokyo , do interviews and gather information. In the studio - along the time of residency- I will be visualizing these info into various paintings and drawings , set as shifting images on the wall between two figures ; a right and a left Niō Guardians . With one having its mouth open, uttering the sound "ah", the other with its mouth closed uttering the sound "om, ", these two appropriated traditional figures are designed to constitute - like life and death, beginning and end - the borders of my various visualizations.
