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Sarah EL Raghy

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Giza-Zoo-Collective
Public Project
Giza-Zoo-Collective
Copyright Sarah EL Raghy 2024
Updated Sep 2024
Summary






A group of artists, brought together by their love for the Giza Zoo with all its conflicting feelings and memories, is deeply connected to a place that now stands closed for renovations—waiting, anticipating how it will transform. Though I never visited the Giza Zoo during my childhood, having only visited the Al Nozha Zoo in Alexandria, the news of its impending closure stirred something within me. I rushed to visit before it was too late, imagining myself as a child, venturing into the zoo alone to discover its magic for the first time.

To document these emotions, the artists collaborated using photography, collage, and drawings in a shared sketchbook. For five days, this sketchbook moved from one artist to another between Cairo and alexandria , each documenting their feelings through visual art, creating a rich, collective reflection on the zoo. This evolving artistic process resulted in a unique collective sketchbook that was later exhibited in the Giza Collective's open studio.

The "Giza Zoo Collective" was hosted for an art residency throughout August 2024 at Medrar, where they explored the zoo’s history and transformation through their artistic lenses. During the residency, the collective organized various public events and activities, culminating in an open studio closing event that showcased the residency’s outcomes—artworks capturing the zoo’s past, present, and imagined future.

https://www.instagram.com/giza_zoo_collective/ 
https://www.instagram.com/medrar_/
https://www.instagram.com/p/C_JRP0GNegR/
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