Hady Boraey: Migrants to the North

The second solo show at this gallery for the Egyptian artist, featuring new works with themes of memory, nostalgia, and childhood. Inspired by ancient Egyptian and Coptic art, Boraey heavily depends on metaphors, “taking his audience on a dramatic journey filled with poetic nuances to coax them into new territory beyond their comfort zones” as the gallery puts it.

The artist himself says the inspiration came from his father’s library: “In my journey from childhood to maturity, I was affected and dreamed a lot of another distant land to live in. There is nothing in it but a rock, a horse, a tree and a lake. A pure, simple dream. Here, in some of these paintings, I tried to convey my childhood dream in paintings that carry many of the feelings of Hady the child, whose life took him far from his home in the Delta. He still dreams of the legends of his grandmother’s old tales …”

To 5 April.