Art, Space & Power
with Mohamed Ismail Shawki (Ismail)
The experience.
An exploration of how art interacts with public space — shaping perception, behavior, and control within urban environments.
A focused conversation on the relationship between art and public space, and on how artistic interventions can reveal, question and reshape the forces that organize urban life.
Mohamed Ismail Shawki (Ismail)
Mohamed Ismail Shawki is a Cairo-based visual artist whose practice operates at the intersection of art, activism, and public space. A graduate of Egypt’s High Institute of Cinema and co-founder of the street-art collective Mona Lisa Brigades, he works primarily with sculpture, installation, and site-specific interventions to examine how urban environments influence visibility and social dynamics.
Inside SA Studios.
A glimpse of the real space in Dahab where the event takes place.
