SAREYA FATHI
Sareya Fathi Inspired by landscape, light, textures and color, artist Sareya Fathi is mesmerized by the environments of Upper Egypt, capturing it’s saturations and slow, vibrant moods through paint and pastel. These experiments gazing into reflections and shadows, defining architectural angles and a quiet stillness lead one into the next, creating a body of work that is as fascinating as the artist himself and the world he loves. His art is an honor to his homeland, and Luxor Art Gallery looks forward to seeing the evolution of his work into more dreamy visions of his beautiful world.—D.N.
Sareya Fathy is an Egyptian artist who graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in 2011 and participated in many international and local exhibitions, including Nord Art in Germany in 2016, a side event at the Roger Dal exhibition in France in 2009, and the 25th Silver Jubilee Youth Salon in 2014. He also took part in the Pioneers exhibition (Art Lovers) in 2010 and 2015, the "First Time" exhibition at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and the first South Salon in Luxor in 2014 and 2015. Sareya held an individual exhibition titled "People and Clay" at the Mersam Hotel on the West Bank of the Qurna Village in Luxor in 2011. He has won several awards, including the Art Lovers Association Award (2010) and the Reading for All Festival Art Competition Award (2002 and 2005).
“These paintings were executed between 2010 and 2011 for the village of Al-Qurna before most of it was demolished. They serve as a documentation of the village as well. Some of the houses depicted in the paintings no longer exist. Additionally, there are scenes from the village of Hassan Fathi. The dimensions of these works range from 50x70 to some measuring 60x70 and even 70x80.” — Sareya Fathi
