Ayoub
Saeed
Artist / Singer / Researcher
Ayoub Saeed is an Alexandrian artist based in Cairo with a background in art, music, documentary photography, and theatre and constantly strives to contextualize his projects visually and spatially relating to their situation and the area, he's working as a Senior Liaison Art D’Égypte, who selects and often interprets different works of art, whether they be paintings, statues, etc. In addition to selecting works, Saeed is often responsible for artists catalog essays, and other content supporting art exhibitions, have an eye for a variety of art forms and a passion for staging artwork in a way that creates interest in the exhibition space—whether it is small or large, contained within four walls, or staged outdoors, he works with the team to deliver a high-quality exhibition experience and provides on-the-ground support for exhibition logistics, as well as he likes working on the site and provides reasonable nitrative, on-ground, and customer service. To support the team in delivering high standard, all-round exhibition logistics, and exhibition experience, and to ensure a high visitor experience by using his knowledge of the given exhibition program. Has studied Oriental Music and is particularly interested in preserving and reviving musical heritage. In his view, there is nothing quite as extraordinary as the rhythms, forms, and patterns found in the spatialized expressions. Although he's interested in the conceptual dimension of art.
- A theatrical performance by the "Hishis Clown" group at the Jesuit Garage Theater in Alexandria
- The "Our Neighborhood" story by the Vice Versa theater group at Institut Francais d'Egypte in Alexandria
- Contemporary dance performance "Insects not invertebrates" by Italian director Georgia Moffa at The Falaki Theater at the AUC and Bibliotheca Alexandrina in 2018
- Participated in singing with “Wanaseen” team of narration with the storyteller Islam Foda, Alexandria.
- "El seera Elhelalia" with Sheikh Zain Mahmoud at Al Madina Studio in Alexandria
- "Songs of ElSheikh Imam" with Maryam Saleh in Pianola in Alexandria
- A music workshop at the 2016 Alwan Festival at AlAhram Theater in Cairo
- Music workshop with Fathy Salama at Institut Francais D'Egypte in Cairo
- “The Andalusian Muwashahat and Folklore” At Deka Cultural center in Alexandria
- "The Songs and Compositions of Sheikh Imam" in Pianola / Janaklis Studio in Alexandria
- I participated online with my friend Ahmed El Sawy in his graduation project on Safe Spaces, from EDHEA, Switzerland
- One of the judges for the show organized by the salon organization, Queer Got Talent third edition in Cairo
- Senior Liaison and Curator at Art D’Égypte
- Assistant manager at Janaklees Studio for Visual Art
- Singing training lecturer and oriental music history at Tadamon - The Egyptian Refugee Multicultural Council
- Coordinator at Dar Lilit for publishing and distribution
In a series of playful evenings this workshop discussed identity and gender euphoria through texts, performance, and visual arts, going back in time to the Downtown Cairo spots that attracted cultural workers in the 1930s. As we searched and discussed the actions, performances, and lifestyles of the queen Badia Masabni casino attendees, including artists, community stars, business owners, and others.”
In this workshop you won't learn how to write or dance. In the Moving Texts Lab we will experiment with writing texts that can accompany movement, and improvising movement to go along with spoken word. All through a short period of research into writing and performing during which we will be prompting various discussions and readings, and pursuing various approaches to generating visually and sensorially harmonious texts and performances.
The unique aspect of this workshop is that we had to work on mixing texts and movement to create a multidisciplinary theater performance.
I specialize in collage papers and abstract concepts. While I've been trained in different mediums, I found a deep connection to traditional paintings and contemporary art. I love how it communicates so much of the creator to the audience. Ironically, the communication feels easier in the abstract. The human being is in dire need, from time to time, to release his spirit in the spaces of audio, visual, and read art, to balance in spirit and material, and to create a state of stability during which he/she is provided with justifications for continuing the life that has become surrounded by the walls of oppression, isolation, violence and exhausting gasping, in order to provide the material fuel of life that has become Lots, complex and hard to find.
Pasha Palace, 2022
Mixed media on paper
14x21 cm
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Oriental Drag Queen, 2021
Mixed media on paper
14.6x20.7 cm
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Is there a fire?, 2021
Mixed media on paper
14.6x20.7 cm
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Al-Pasha, 2023
Mixed media on paper
14.6x20.7 cm
Lady of the South Nile, 2023
collage on canson paper
16x24 cm
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Contemporary Museum, 2023
collage on canson paper
24x15,8 cm
Want to go hiking?, 2023
collage on canson paper
16x24 cm
Night dance, 2023
collage on canson paper
16x24 cm
Old district, 2023
Mixed media on paper
21x14,5 cm
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The epic of kings "Shahnameh", 2023
Acrylic on paper
30x21 cm
Dreams, 2022
Acrylic on paper
30x21 cm
Lost in the woods, 2022
Acrylic on paper
30x21 cm
My own mind, 2022
Acrylic on paper
30x21 cm
Women, life, freedom
A tribute to the women of Iran, 2023
Mixed media on paper
29x17 cm, Each
Street photography
Al-Anfoushi Series
Al-Anfoushi receives fishermen from all governorates to supply fish after long fishing trips at sea, and also receives traders from all governorates, during the daily auction witnessed at dawn to sell fish tables, as each table contains about 20 to 30 kg, and the price of each table ranges. It varies daily according to several factors, including the availability of fish and the demand for seafood that day.
Music Journey
Ayoub and Friends project was one of the projects that revived and renewed the oriental heritage music in Alexandria with oriental instruments
We enjoy our Barzakh experience, 3 artists from different artistic backgrounds gather in a small room to work on reviving multiple types of our oriental music heritage and anonymous folklore or reformulating this legacy in a contemporary oriental language with popular electronic mixing, musical heritage can only be alive if we give it to it. The opportunity for it to be like that, renewed in a permanent position of controversy and interpretation to produce a rigid eternal thought, so what do we mean today when we say that this musical work is heritage / folkloric?! and does the question lead to positive results in the end?! should we ask in our musical works questions related to identity and its values, or should we ask questions about existence through creativity?! ..
Beauty Lovers
This work was my first collaboration with Bonga Beats, and it was my first experience with Electronic Music.
Bonga is an Electronic music producer.
I met Bonga, who had a poem he wanted me to sing. Bonga heard this poem repeated by a poor man as he was walking in the street. Bonga sat with the man in a cafe and asked him to write it down.
I was touched by the words of the poem, and “Beauty Lovers” was the product of our work together.
• Here, you can find the song on Soundcloud.
https://soundcloud.com/mohamed-bonga/beauty-lovers-bongabeats
• Bonga's Facebook Page.
https://www.facebook.com/Mohamed-Bonga-BEATS-RAB-HIPHOB-161929973885017/?ref=page_internal
EMAIL ME
Get in Touch
9 Ismail Seri st, Cairo / Egypt
Ayoub.saeed@artdegypte.com
Ayoubszpl@gmail.com
