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Walid Elsawi

Do-Mystic Uni-Verse

Vidéo | | couleur | 3:10 | Egypte | 2012

Do-Mystic Uni-Verse: is a visual interpretation of the aftermath of the bomb that went off recently inside of me, It`s about hope and also showing the stagnant life we live. It`s a nine clips subtitled with nine vague, subtle, and desperate sentences "verses", about the dull life of mine, but in the same time there`s a sort of sarcasm in them? The motion mechanism is inspired by the motion of the solar system, performed with home worn out nick nacks. I emulate the solar system to represent infinity and continuation.

Walid elsawi, Egyptian visual artist, based and works in Alexandria. BFA in painting, Alexandria University, 2010. He works with different kinds of media, such as installation, video art and painting. He became interested in the concept of the alienation by the time he graduated, expressing his thoughts through oil paintings; he made a series of 14 oil paintings depicting his self-portrait. In 2011 he discovered the impact of the words and how strong they are, so he used texts and words as another form of showing his personality, he came up with three pieces concentrating on the subliminal messages and how tricky words can be In 2012 he made a piece entitled (a contemporary artist vs. a con artist) a dozen statements, taken from the artist?s ongoing interview project are written on glowing neon boxes, peppered around the space. The interview consists of responses he gives to the question ?are you an artist?? a means of exploring the current climate of contemporary art, and the cult of personality, with a tongue-in-cheek emphasis on certain stereotypes, perceived pre-requisites or trends. Alongside with that, In terms of the alienation concept, I decided to deal with it with a whole different form. I worked on manipulating personal domestic photos, because puzzling the viewer makes them think a little deeper, at the first glance they wouldn`t recognize, but when they take a closer look they would see the trick? Believing that the convincing image is the poor resolution one, the non-designed picture; this makes it more realistic by avoiding the aesthetics of photography, I don`t want to focus on a main item in the picture, I prefer to take raw pictures, to enhance the idea.