Artists

Farida Mahdy

Farida Mahdy is a 26-year-old photographer and assistant curator from Cairo, Egypt, known for her bold artistic vision. A graduate of Applied Arts and previously served as head of exhibitions, her work has been featured and exhibited in numerous exhibitions across Egypt and internationally. Her artistic approach in most of her work through photography is about women, social issues, memory through conceptual approaches which represents her the most and currently her family archive is the main point in her practice and what her work evolves around.

AiR Cohort July 2026

July 2026

For three weeks, last july, eight artists from Senegal, Rwanda, Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria and Morocco shared time, land and attention in the Tunisian countryside at Tilal Utique.

Working mostly in visual art, alongside music, they made the residency a space where image and sound met, listened to one another and moved across their boundaries.

Rooted in the landscape and its rhythms, it proposed slowness as a method and encounter as a form of knowledge, opening shared ground for new ways of seeing, hearing and making.