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Lockdown Self-Portrait: An Online Exhibition Showcasing the Many Faces of Lockdown

June 29, 2020
‘Bird Call’ self-portrait. Hand-cut banana fiber paper by Debjani Bhardwaj, (Indian, based in Oman).

“The need to ‘create’ has never been of such great importance (as now),” stresses 44-year-old visual artist and curator Rania Ezzat, “this has been a time of introspection for many, and has been a harsh time for some.” After having been confined to her apartment under lockdown for some time, Ezzat was suddenly inspired to draw a self-portrait. This urge to create and release gave birth to the idea of ‘Lockdown Self-Portrait’, an online exhibition in which Ezzat aims to collect various self-portraits from artists around the world and showcase them on a mutual online platform.  These artworks are special in that they all reflect on various people’s experiences whilst on lockdown during the pandemic. They reflect the feelings one has been going through during strange and difficult times. “This project is a simple platform to show the outcome of this experience,” explains Ezzat, “How all that thinking, and the overload of the human mind can positively turn into creation.” This being a universal experience and not wanting to limit the project to just Egyptian artists, Ezzat released a worldwide open call to which artists from Switzerland, the United Kingdom…


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