Adaptation 1: “The chair”, Adaptation 2: “The saucepan” 

Rania Atef has chosen to represent two common objects that seem to have been used to the point of deterioration and are potentially destined to disappear forever, so as to conceptually underline and render visible the up-cycling process, upon which participation in the project is based. 

Her everyday objects, a chair with a broken leg, a saucepan that was burnt so much that it melted, once their functions have run their course, lose their realistic dimension and enter a fairy-tale one. They swell up and grow and, as in a spell, become giants and give shape to a visual landscape that recalls Alice’s Wonderland. 

Atef covers her two objects with layers of paper from magazines using for both a collage technique, but with different intentions: while on the saucepan she superimposes thin strips so as to make the images and the writings illegible and make them appear like brush strokes of pure colour creating an effect of vibrating flames, on the chair she glues pages cut into different geometrical shapes, from which familiar faces, complete sentences and disconnected words pop out. Advertisements, reports, journalistic inquiries are plucked from their original context. These fragments juxtaposed like film frames give birth to a circular narration with no beginning or end, open to any kind of development and interpretation. 

The technique of accumulation pays tribute to experience; it brings to mind and reforms the traces of the objects which have passed from one hand to another over time. It is a fascinating process that evokes, even if unconsciously, the accumulation of rubbish in the dump sites where the layers amassed over the years tell their stories together with that of the civilization that created them. 

Rania Atef, a visual artist and illustrator, graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts. Interested in installation art and especially in paper art, in making her artworks she uses different materials like wire and wood next to paper. She participated in different exhibitions in and outside Egypt.

رانيا عاطف، فنانة بصرية و رسامة، تخرجت من فنون تطبيقية عام 2011. مهتمة بفن التركيب بشكل عام و خاصة الأعمال الفنية المصنوعة من الورق. تستخدم خامات متعددة بجانب الورق مثل الخشب والسلك في صناعة العمل الفني. شاركت في معارض داخل و خارج مصر.

يتكون المشروع من مجسمين: كرسي و كسرولة, مصنوعين بحجم أكبر بكثير من حجمهم الطبيعي. يعتبر الكرسي و الكسرولة من أكثر الأشياء التي يحتفظ بها المصريون في منازلهم أو أماكن عملهم. و نادرا ما يتم التخلي عنها أو التوقف عن استعمالها. فجرت العادة أن يتم تصليحها أو التأقلم مع تشوهاتها أثناء الاستعمال اليومي. هذا المشروع يعكس الطبيعة المصرية من وجهة نظري الشخصية و يمثل قدرتنا البشرية علي التأقلم وإلى أي مدى يمكننا الاحتمال . 

• العنوان: الأشياء الخفية
• الأبعاد: الارتفاع : 3 متر

                       العرض: 1.5 متر
                        الطول: 1.5 متر

• الخامة: ورق مقوي، جرائد و خشب
• عام الإنتاج: 2016