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The Moon's Breath on Display in Cairo

The exhibition curated by Mafalda Budib opened on October 31 at Nox Gallery in Cairo as a dialogue between artists from Oaxaca and Egypt.

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Representative image of Oaxaca's Valles Centrales region: In Santo Tomás Jalieza, Ocotlán, Oaxaca, Mexico, crafts such as rebozos, dresses, huipiles, blouses, coats, shawls, bags and napkins are made. Made with cotton thread, wool and yarn. Its textile activity is varied.
Representative imageRepresentative image of the Valles Centrales region; not a photograph of the reported event.Credit: Carlos Eugenio Torres Prieto / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · License: CC BY-SA 4.0

The exhibition The Moon's Breath, curated by Mafalda Budib, opened on October 31 at Nox Gallery in Cairo, Egypt, and brings together artists from Oaxaca and Egypt.

Exhibition details

The artistic dialogue

The exhibition brings together painting, photography, graphic art, ceramics, and contemporary languages as a shared territory for exploring intuition, memory, and imagination.

It draws inspiration from the thought of Gaston Bachelard and Carl Jung, and from the symbolic universes of ancient Egypt and the Indigenous worldviews of Oaxaca. According to the presentation, it proposes discovering resonances between the two cultures rather than establishing similarities.

The presentation text describes the exhibition as a pause and notes that creation continues to build bridges where words reach their limits.

Participating Oaxacan artists

  • Antonio Turok, Guillermo Olguín, Alberto “El Negro” Ibáñez, Tony Aguilar, and Manuel Escobar.
  • José Luis García, Luvia Lazo, Bouler, Ixrael Montes, and Johnny Castellanos.
  • Nancy Bobadilla Cortés, Polo Vallejo, Raúl Herrera, Tony Petate, Tomás Pineda Matus, and Gesner Melchor.

The opening

The opening was attended by Mexico's ambassador in Egypt, Héctor Ortega Nieto; curator Mafalda Budib; Ayman Lotfy, the Egyptian organizer; Sameh Amin, co-founder of The Nox Mall; and Halla Shafey, of the Nox team. The artists Tony Aguilar, José Luis García, Guillermo Olguín, Antonio Turok, and Johnny Castellanos were also present.

A quote from Doria Shafik

Dreams are not a refuge from life; they are the secret place where life begins.

— Doria Shafik