Ahmed Kamel - With Us It’s Different

Ahmed Kamel - Artwork - With Us It’s Different - Flags, Sculpture, Fabric and Concrete, 100x100x290 cm, 2020

Ahmed Kamel - Artwork - With Us It’s Different - Book, Leather, Paper and Concrete 52x60x7 cm (including stand: 80x100x120 cm), 2020 — *_{Book, Leather, Paper and Concrete 52x60x7 cm (including stand: 80x100x120 cm), 2020}*

With Us, It’s Different
Flags, Sculpture, Fabric and Concrete, 100x100x290 cm, 2020

This work interrogates the concept of cultural peculiarity and its symbols, through which members of diverse groups identify themselves. The series is based on blending familiar forms and creating hybrid ones. Three flags are suspended from a pole in a triangular concrete stand. Each flag bears symbols and colors reminiscent of forms of affiliation. The contrast between the flexible flags and the rigid concrete base explores the varying degrees of cultural identification. The sculpture can be understood as a triptych, representing three facets and manifestations of a shared foundation among these different groups.

Related exhibitions:

2022 “History Leads to Twisted Mountains,” ARD, Cairo, Egypt.
2020 “Positions,” Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany.
2020 “Faraway So Close,” Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany.

Related publication:

2021 “Faraway So Close,” by Galleries Association of Berlin (LVBG), Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany.