Omnia Salah (1981) A contemporary Egyptian artist and researcher, I work as an assistant professor in the Department of Sculpture and Architectural Formation at the Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Cairo , Egypt. My projects had different research prespective , including women, Arab societies, and machine control over consuming societies .My practice is based on researching the relationship between mass culture and media arts. I usually present my ideas through multiple mediums such as sculpture, installation in space, and digital sculpture. Through my projects, I look forward to create and find alphabets for my own personal visual language of three dimensional artworks. I had participated in many well-known group and individual exhibitions since 2000, the most important of which are the youth salon sessions, the small pieces exhibition sessions, and the general exhibition sessions. I ‘am Interested in the field of research in topics related to media arts and the search for the aesthetics of digital arts and their integration with traditional arts specially three-dimensional artworks.

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2. ” ‫“أوافق‬
I Agree
Installation 2022

3. “3031ArtFestival “,Darb1718,Cairo,Egypt
Room4.5*3.5meters contains 6displayunits(40*40*90cm)

4. Is man stripped of his divine image printed on the sacred clay?
Is man a biological being governed by atoms, in which genes are drawn, and natural biological cycles operate
in him, and his condition is no different from the condition of the living creatures on earth?
Is man just a bacterial or viral habitat that crosses animal bodies?
Is man an informational being connected to each other with other informational elements, natural and arti
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cial?
Who we are really now?

5. Transformation is a key element in Greek mythology, This ability to change shape
is a major development in the stories of Arcane, Zeus and Daphne Nearly all the gods
had the power of transformation, but because Proteus could take any shape he
pleased, it was considered by some to be a symbol of the original substance from
which he was created World, can Proteus be this world is the Internet? The media and
social media platforms leave us with the ability to reshape us and create us again.
We destroy parts of ourselves every day, we make daily adjustments to our
photos in Photoshop, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves and our lives, we edit
the parts we think people hate, we delete a memory, a person, a situation with a little
button and rearrange, de
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ne, and shorten our identity By digital technology daily, until
our identity has become mixed with an in
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nite number of virtual personalities, those
transformations in our identity that begin with the most popular demand in di
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erent
communication platforms, I AGREE, to become like unleavened pieces of clay in the
hands of digital technology shapes us based on its orientations, and its own
assumptions.

6. UndefinedCreature
3Dprintedversion
30*13*17cm

7. UndefinedCreature
3Dprintedversion
24*15*26cm

8. FungusBoy
3Dprintedversion
24*21*15cm

9. Manwithamask
3Dprintedversion
24*21*15cm

10. ON HOLD
VIDEO INSTALLATION 2015
”ُ‫ة‬َّ‫و‬ُ‫ح‬ْ‫د‬ُ‫أل‬‫“ا‬
ALADHWA
VIDEO INSTALLATION 2020

11. “41st GeneralExhibition“,heldinArtpalace,Cairooperahouse,Cairo,Egypt.
"Whenever you observe an animal closely you feel as if at a
point inside him there is a human being making fun of you"
Elias Canetti
The Whole Project can be seen at : https://vimeo.com/403798923

12. It has been established in the human mind that he is the master of living creatures in existence (God’s successor on
earth) and that he reigns in the kingdom of the world, which is the crown of the universe and the center of his
heavenly domination. But this special relation began breaking with the birth of modern science. The
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rst shock to this
position was the discovery by (Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543-1473) of the marginality of the Earth as a planet revolving
around the sun. That theory caused a revolutionary upheaval in the position of the man himself and his role in the
extended universe. Ultimately moved nearer the second shock through Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and his theory of
evolution, which displaced man from the center of the biological kingdom.
The third revolutionary shock came with the psychological hammer of Freud’s theory (Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939).
That destroyed the illusions of the centrality of mind and human consciousness during his work in psychoanalysis.
For the
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rst time, an aware and uniquely wise person appears in the subconscious and conscious space as the
essence of personality and the deepest dimension of human consciousness. The fourth and
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nal shock represents
the digital revolution when man engineered and designed autonomous machines. Were able to outperform him in
processing information, and then behave more intelligently than him. This digital revolution dispossessed him of his
previous remaining feature, which is the selection of intelligence and reason.
In a prosperous neighborhood called "Isolator," Ra'al lives and works in the city of "Al-Adhwa," a self-su
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cient place
that emerged to ease overcrowding and reduce the burden on the original city. Ra'al's family prefers the isolation of
"Isolator," as they distrust the educational and healthcare systems of "Al-Adhwa." Raised with a strong allegiance to
"Al-Adhwa," Ra'al sees it as a noble and enchanting place, reserved for the elite "robust humans" who have ruled for
generations. However, his fascination with "Al-Adhwa" is challenged when he discovers a mysterious event called
"The Sin," suppressed by the powerful "robust." Intrigued, he searches for information but
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nds it dismissed as a
myth by o
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cial sources.
The concept revolves around the contrasting worlds of "Isolator" and "Al-Adhwa," highlighting the privileged position
of the "robust humans" ruling the latter. Ra'al's upbringing shapes his perception of "Al-Adhwa" as a divine place, but
the discovery of "The Sin" sows doubt in his mind. This summary captures the essence of a society divided by class
and reveals the protagonist's journey of questioning the idealized image of his beloved city.

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15. ON HOLD
VIDEO INSTALLATION 2015
ON HOLD
VIDEO INSTALLATION 2015

16. “Somethingelseoff“ biennale,heldinDarb1718,oldCairo,Egypt
a free will woman means being a fighter, being an Arabian free will woman means being a struggler. We used to
chooseeasyways,Choosenottofeel,Nottoseewhoweare,Whatcanwedo,fearisanoption,wechooseto
fear from starting, we choose to fear success, we choose to fear freedom. We used to live our life as a final
option, it would be better to live it as preferable option. On Hold is waiting, waiting for death, waiting for
happiness,waitingforlove,waitingforholyevent.
project uses video projection, cloths, as mediums to achieve its purpose. For more information, check the video
onURL:https://vimeo.com/149033409

17. CONNECT/NULL
INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION 2013

18. Project made as a result of PhD thesis “BASIC STANDARDS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL
INTERACTIVE WORKS DESIGN” in Faculty of applied arts, Helwan university, Cairo, Egypt
Although the possibility of communication has become easier and faster, individual become more and
more isolated, by increasing of Communications technology, and Internet networks, and rising up of
social networking culture, it become obvious that interpersonal communication was limited to
cyberspace communication, where anyone can claim what he wants through electronic interaction.
Egypt has been witnessing political developments and Splits, this leads to missing sense and logic in
dialogues between two person having di
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erent point of views .the dialogue suddenly turned as if they
talk a two di
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erent languages. From there came the idea of Connect/Null.
I wanted to make a project that is resembling the isolation and disconnection that we all feel now as
Egyptians due to political views, so I made my project which has the (ATM) shape as it is a place has a
lot of privacy, and by help of Mr./mohamed abou elwafa, who developed a chatting room program, in
which depends on database of famous sentences in Egypt, these sentences access randomly while two
person have a chat, each one write a sentence, and when he press send, it transferred to the second
another sentence at all , and both of ten see each other but they cant hear each other, so at the end
conversation turned to be Incomprehensible.

20. HUG ME ,THANKS
INTERACTIVE SCULPTURE 2013

21. “SixthFloor “exhibition,heldinVenoazhotel,downtown,Cairo,Egypt
HUG ME THANKS, is a symbol to passive systems, symbol of being nice, (which of
course is great feeling), it came as an ironic idea to reject violence, but in a negative
way, which we all live, it came to expresses the next generation who are going to solve
all of his problems of with love!!
It consists of two arms that tending to hug the spectator; it relies on 2 motors, every
motor for one arm, with two electric circuits, one for closing, and other for opening.

22. LONG LIVE THE MAN
VIDEO 2012

23. “Videoartaward“in23rdYouthsalon,operahouse,Cairo,Egypt
(5:30min-DVD)
Long Live , the man is a contemplative view for woman to her self, which had been
very rare from the hustle of daily life, but in these moment while she do her
makeup, she is just like facing herself, her life becomes like a cinema tape , she is
thinking about her lost love, her society , her struggle of being a woman in
masculine society , but in a true moment , she asked herself,, why I wouldn’t be
just like them ,, they told me that he is the best in everything, I ll say so too but in
my own ,, and that’s when she shouted “ long live the man “ , “ long live the man “.
Video could be watched at : https://vimeo.com/87352626

24. PAPER & STRING
INSTALLATION 2011

25. 22 Th. youth salon, Opera house, Cairo,Egypt
First thing I remember when I saw a kite is the song of greatest Lebanon
singer” fayrouz” “ teery ya tayra “ ,with its playful sense but also kite also
reminds me with myself and my dream of
fl
ying away , our dream of freedom
and our fake freedom that we think we had it.

26. PERFECT HOUSE
VIDEO INSTALLATION 2011

27. Solo exhibition in El Gezira Art center, Cairo, Egypt
Perfect House is concentrated about the domination of male in the
middle east society and his insist that woman is 2nd degree person,
despite of universal look of woman as she is equal to man in everything
and despite she works in the same
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elds that he works in but he
doesn’t admit till now by this and in my opinion these thing is
happened due to the way of raising up male in middle east society
upon that he is like god for his woman and she should obey him all the
time.
There are 6 conversation videos which start with a title which I had
put it upon what they said about their opinion in the relationship
between men and women and each one of them talk about marriage
from his point of view and their opinion about each other.

28. STUBBORN DREAM
VIDEO 2011

29. Self-portrait video project workshop ,The Townhouse art gallery, Cairo, Egypt.
The video deals with my personal busy life and doing my role as being mother, house
wife, and my role as an artist and as assistant lecturer , and in the second phase my own
dream of peace and quiet . the work is like when i have a wake dream that attacks me
suddenly while my regular daily life.
Video could be watched at url :http://www.vimeo.com/24528074

30. UNDER CONSTRUCTION
VIDEO INSTALLATION 2010

31. 21st youth salon at Opera house, Cairo, Egypt.
Under Construction re
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ects personal experiments of the artist and her feelings of isolation
and chaos when she realized that her life needs to a new arrangements, when she decided
to pack up her memories and collect things determines who she is and her trial to build
herself again. Project is a cozy room with warm wallpaper , the artist intend to make it like
a room of a woman and try to put inside it a feminine contents like make up and perfumes.
This movie is representing some jars which containing items of artist′s memories, those
memories which shaping artist′s life and she will keep them in her heart while leaving and
through her way.Video could be watched at youtube url:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfLjhhF6NXQ

32. CHOOSE
VIDEO 2009
CHOOSE
VIDEO 2009

33. Choose is a video artwork in which the artist try to re
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ect the ways that we
choose in our life , some of us choose to be fruitful and for this he can easily
forget any bad memories or obstacles he had and easily go on in his life ,and
other choose not to forget .
Video could be watched at youtube url:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABFbQMLuaMg

34. DREAM OF A WOMAN
VIDEO INSTALLATION 2008

35. 19th youth salon,installation prize, palace of
art, opera house, Cairo , Egypt
The installation is a closed room and
audiences are allowed to see contents through
two pair of window. Room is consisting of
feminine contents inside it, icons resemble love
in women memory, like rings, and diary, very
smooth cloths, and in the facing wall there is a
projected video about real and roughness of
marital life which is totally opposite to her
dream.
The movie here is representing a woman
memory of love and romance and how this
romance starts to decrease gradually after
marriage and suddenly she found herself alone
and isolated in home stu
ff
and never
fi
nd an
appropriate appreciation and that’s makes her
becomes aggressive which drives her at the
end to cut her own romance .
Artist tries that this whole movie to appear to
be like the other side of romance, or like the
real life and to be the far opposite of the room.
Video could be watched at you tube url:
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v=6pVkDKSVE_o

36. IN DEPTH
VIDEO INSTALLATION 2006

37. VAD festival, Gerona, Spain in 2008
Video-Installation re
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ects feeling of being alone and need
for help, and tried to build a situation of falling in a well,
and variable responds of people to the situation in the
video which is shown up. The work is a symbol of crises
which any one can go through it and how people around
him act with this.
The work is a cone in which audience can go inside it and
he will see the video at the top of the cone.
The movie is representing di
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erent reactions of di
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erent
people to one who falls in a well and the artist was trying to
resemble here the crises which man could face through his
life and the way people treat him.
Video could be watched at youtube url:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6RvgK-RpHg

38. Thank you