FAACCE Curated
"Painted across the long rains of 2024, Songs of the Iroko begins with the artist's grandmother — a woman who spoke to trees the way others speak to elders."
Nigeria · Fine Art
Songs of the Iroko
Adaeze Okafor
FAACCE Curated
Nile Geometries
Cairo, Egypt·Fine Art
- Medium
- Gouache and gold leaf on paper
- Dimensions
- 120 × 90 cm
- Year
- 2024
- Certificate
- FA-2024-0132 →
$ 8,600
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Authenticated by the FAACCE Curatorial Council. View certificate.
Story behind the work
El Sayed's Nile Geometries returns to the mathematical logic of Cairene mashrabiya screens — not as ornament, but as an argument about light, privacy and the female interior across the modern Arab city.
A suite reworking Islamic geometric tradition into a contemporary painting language of gouache, gilded line and negative space.
Curatorial note
FAACCE Curatorial Council
"Reviewed by the FAACCE Curatorial Council and the Cairo advisory circle; geometric logic and materials verified."
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