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oum Portraits, inks on paper, 29.5 × 21 cm, 1999:2005
In some drawings of Fayoum faces, the artist drew only the upper
part of the face, concentrating on the area of the eyes. In the draw-
ing, an eye is remained in its original realistic position, treating it in
a dark silhouette with thick ink while its edges begin to shift, and
an eye is changed and styled with a geometric world with its num-
bers, coordinates, networks, and graphs, about the transformation
that occurred in our contemporary life and our transition from hu-
manity to the code system.
The noise of the present disturbs the dream of the past. What
strangeness to return the soul to us in a time that does not re-
semble us, and forces the dreamy people swimming in their king-
dom to live in our anxious worlds. Nawar does not forget to put a
miniature model of the original face in one of the lower corners of
the drawing as if he is looking from his old world to what would
happen to him if he was resurrected in this new life. In this ex-
perience, Nawar gave a model for re-dialogue with our old arts
and to include them in a contemporary spirit loaded with our new
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In some drawings of Fayoum faces, the artist drew only the upper
part of the face, concentrating on the area of the eyes. In the draw-
ing, an eye is remained in its original realistic position, treating it in
a dark silhouette with thick ink while its edges begin to shift, and
an eye is changed and styled with a geometric world with its num-
bers, coordinates, networks, and graphs, about the transformation
that occurred in our contemporary life and our transition from hu-
manity to the code system.
The noise of the present disturbs the dream of the past. What
strangeness to return the soul to us in a time that does not re-
semble us, and forces the dreamy people swimming in their king-
dom to live in our anxious worlds. Nawar does not forget to put a
miniature model of the original face in one of the lower corners of
the drawing as if he is looking from his old world to what would
happen to him if he was resurrected in this new life. In this ex-
perience, Nawar gave a model for re-dialogue with our old arts
and to include them in a contemporary spirit loaded with our new
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