Amina Kadous

As part of a multilayered, long-term search for identity amidst Egypt's changing socio-political and economic landscapes, the artist interweaves her personal, familial, and national histories with the history of Egyptian cotton. She documents the fading fabrics, traditions, culture, and symbols of the past, offering a lens through which we can shape how we view ourselves. Amina tells the story by incorporating her grandfather’s archive and her photographs, to go back to her roots and family tree, to her land, her grandparents’ house, and her hometown El Mehalla Al Kobra city that was once called the Castle of Industry. Her story aims to open up discourses around origin, memory, personal trauma, abandoned history, land use and preservation, and the battles we fight within us as we try to place ourselves in a constantly ever-changing world.