Ossification
Oil and Acrylic on canvas
140x100 cm 
2019

Marwan Elgamal is an Egyptian contemporary artist born in 1990, His interdisciplinary practice spans painting, animation and text with an...

Ossification
Oil and Acrylic on canvas
140x100 cm 
2019

Marwan Elgamal is an Egyptian contemporary artist born in 1990, His interdisciplinary practice spans painting, animation and text with an interest in the loss of the familiar through imagined storytelling and alternate remembrance, seeking to explore coherent narratives of identity of the self and society by disrupting these anchor points of recognition. Interested in the driving's of culture and how images, stories and traditions instill identity. Drawing from history, mythology, pop culture, archetypes and personal memory and allowing for fluid interchangeability between these . Invoking the mysterious, the uncanny and otherworldly, his work depicts realms outside of recognizable locations and time, alternative maps for the viewer to experience novel connections with themselves and the world. The work seeks to place an indefiniteness to events, where change is constant. Addressing contradiction and resolution, familiarity and foreignness. His work has been exhibited in Egypt and Netherlands. He received his MFA in Painting at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen, Netherlands, and BA from the American University in Cairo, Egypt in 2012.