Hafez Gallery: Ibrahim El Dessouki 'Testimony of the Soil’

10 Oct-25 Oct 2025

Ibrahim El Dessouki, The Olive Tree 2, 2025, oil on canvas, 150 × 200 cm. Credit: Courtesy of Hafez Gallery. Photography by Boulos Isaacjpg.

Overview

Hafez Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of renowned Egyptian painter Ibrahim El-Dessouki. The exhibition, curated by Dr Sara Raza, explores the complex relationship between the land, power, and labour through a series of new and recent allegorical paintings inspired by Egypt’s socio-political history, cinema, and literature.

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