From the Bottom to the Top and Vice Versa

Site-specific sculpture, wood and fired white stoneware figurines, 4.5 × 4.5 × 1.5 m

Permanent installation, commissioned by ADD Art for Egypt’s first art hotel — a curated program of commissions by Egyptian contemporary artists

Private commission, ADD Art, Cairo, Egypt, 2024

Photography: Orama Productions

From the Bottom to the Top and Vice Versa is a site-specific sculpture inspired by Cairo — its energy, its constant movement, and its layered, overwhelming sounds. Viewed from outside, the city can appear purely chaotic; yet beneath that surface, some underlying order persists and holds. In this work, I explore the tension between harmony and randomness as two forces that are never fully separable in Cairo’s urban life. The piece extends an inquiry I began in an earlier installation from 2012, It’s Not As Easy As It May Have Seemed to Be, into structure, improvisation, and the particular vitality of things that appear precarious but endure.