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Body That Rises

ArtDegypte-AD — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:27:30 +0000

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Body That Rises is a 7m-high sculpture built from 74 wood beams stacked to form a rising, square grid. As artist João Trevisan explains, “The piece is designed for the Giza plateau, and I’d like viewers to imagine that the shape echoes the framework of a large obelisk pointing skyward.”

The project includes a vertically mounted structure that points to the Egyptian sky, a sculpture for viewing on the Giza Plateau in Forever Is Now. The use of Trevisan’s signature wood railroad sleepers engages Egypt’s immediate past—the train tracks laid down in the 19th century. And in their pure vertical form the vertical columns of both proposals directly reference skyward-pointing obelisks of the ancient past.

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Al-Barzakh

ArtDegypte-AD — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:17:13 +0000

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Not built to navigate earthly waters, the sun boat, or solar barque, was carefully constructed to carry the soul of the pharaoh and the justified through to the heavens. It was the vessel gliding between two worlds, able to pass through the liminal space dividing, yet connecting, two modes of existence. The barque took the human soul into the realm of the gods through the same divide the gods themselves use to travel back and forth from the world of the living. This oneness between two realms, divided, yet connected through a liminal space, is not dissimilar from what Ibn Arabi would later describe as the barzakh.

The barzakh, or the divide, is a mental construct, an intangible entity that is understood but not witnessed, known but not realized. It is a presence between two platforms that resides intellectually, not physically, pertaining to its unique nature.

The barzakh is susceptible to all manner of paradoxical traits, assembling contradictory pairs. Given that Ibn Arabi believed in a primary duality between the deity and the universe; the only median capable of receiving both sides within itself is the illusion of the barzakh. The connection between them is not that of separation, but rather one that represents two sides to one truth/reality; what connects them is the connected part of the disconnected whole.

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(Plan Of The Path Of Light) In The House Of The Hidden Places

ArtDegypte-AD — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:22:22 +0000

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The work counterbalances expressions of geometric form and measure that are aligned to celestial points and stellar horizons, creating a kind of optical clockwork that reveals itself in an ever-shifting paradigm of illuminated planes. It interfaces between the viewer and the cosmos, with shapes counterpoised to create glyphic expressions of materiality, balanced on the terrestrial horizon but activated by the path of the sun and stars.

Behind the abstract simplicity of the forms is a matrix of symbolic angles, measures and orientations, each carefully encoded with significations inspired by the optic-geometric magic of the Great Pyramid. The glass itself, whilst reflecting a future oriented aesthetic reminiscent of technological interfaces and contemporary architectures, in fact becomes like a timeless spiritual medium, suspended between materiality and transparency; the visible and the invisible.

The work intends to create a kind of interdimensionality by opening up these screenic interfaces, linking the experience of the present to both the ancient world and our future technological landscape.

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INTERIOR SPACE: KHAFRE

ArtDegypte-AD — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:48:32 +0000

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A theme in my sculpture for many years was inspired by the Tombs of the Apis Bulls at Saqqara. These massive monolithic granite boxes fitted in with my ‘minimalist’ aesthetic, however, their power was layered with highly evocative meaning.

Contemporary industrial processing enabled me, here in Cairo, to devise a method of producing sarcophagal forms of great size that exhibited the magnificence of Egyptian stone initially from the Eastern Mountains that were the source of rare porphyry and breccia.

This new work directed at an engagement with Chephren that began some 15 years ago in a quest for the source of the stone of his famous funerary statue. The work realized here is not made with that material but with the material of his sarcophagus—granite from Aswan—found within his pyramid.

My sculpture for Forever Is Now is a personal homage that reaches for the majesty of a sarcophagus of a scale and uniqueness appropriate to this great builder. —Stephen Cox RA

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R III

ArtDegypte-AD — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:34:35 +0000

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Saudi archaeologists discovered a hieroglyphic inscription belonging to King Ramses III, one of the kings of ancient Egypt, in the Zaydania area of Tayma Governorate in northern Saudi Arabia. This inscription is the first hieroglyphic inscription found in the Arabian Peninsula; it is on a fixed rock and bears the royal signature. The path to the discovery is marked with cartouches (royal signatures) of King Ramses III, and its presence near Tayma raised the question of civilizational context that could explain a cartouche deep in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula.

The concept is to construct a maze of cubes with the inscription of Ramses III engraved on the surface. Copper will be used, which was acquired through missions to the Arabian Peninsula. This project will constitute a turning point in studying the roots of the civilizational relations between Egypt and Arabia.

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