“Having a bit of both – the past and the future – is and always will be the great balance that makes this world worth living and beautiful as it is,” Dina Fahmy, one of Egypt’s pioneering contemporary artists, tells Egyptian Streets. Since 2011, Fahmy’s art has taken different turns as she traveled to different countries across the world, initially experimenting with the warmth of idealism, to most recently, minimalism. Today, her chosen style can be qualified as colorful minimalism. In 2015, she participated in her first group exhibition of artists at the Italian Consulate in Cairo, followed by a second collective exhibition at the Cairo Opera House. In 2016, she reached the peak of her artistic career with paintings such as “The Southern Woman” (2016). Fahmy’s latest art projects shift digital art towards the organic, the gentle, the elegant and the beautiful. Inspired by ancient Greek mythology, she uses art as a thread to connect the audience with the past, and discover the hidden stories that carry wisdom and imagination beyond current time. Even if one cannot grasp what these ancient myths mean at first glance, one can unravel…
