Ahmed Kamel

Bio

Ahmed Kamel is interested in domestic and urban life. He uses photography, video and drawing to address social issues. He was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1981, where he studied painting and received his BFA in 2003. Kamel is the recipient of a number of residencies including "Prohelvetia", Bern, Switzerland, "Land NRW", Dusseldorf, Germany and "Amongst Neighbours", Istanbul, Turkey. He has participated in various solo and group exhibitions in the middle east and Europe.

His work is mainly concerned with how society constructs and idealizes its identity through means of visual representation that can act as markers of people’s social and cultural background.