Background
Amal Kenawy was born in 1974 in Cairo, Egypt.
Amal Kenawy was born in 1974 in Cairo, Egypt.
She showed interest in art of film and fashion design from an early age, she studied film and fashion design at Egypt’s Cinema Institute and received an undergraduate degree in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Helwan University in Egypt in 1999.
The collaboration resulted in heaps of artworks ranging from sculptures, installations and videos that gained several awards and international recognition, including United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Grand Prize at the International Cairo Biennale. Kenawy"s solo work commended on more use of an intimate approach, she uses her own body alongside a representations of fragile materials, animals and found objects to express mental and physical pain and addressed themes that represented important moments in her life such as birth, marriage, death, dreams, and memory. Amal Kenawy died on August 19, 2012 at the age of 38 suffering from leukemia.
2002 Frozen Memory, video,Photograph and Sculpture Installation.