eL Seed perception movie is actually being screened in Melbourne @ Thornbury Picture House Thursday 11th May at 6:20pm!
“In my new project ‘Perception’ I am questioning the level of judgment and misconception society can unconsciously have upon a community based on their differences.
In the neighborhood of Manshiyat Nasr in Cairo, the Coptic community of Zaraeeb collects the trash of the city for decades and developed the most efficient and highly profitable recycling system on a global level. Still, the place is perceived as dirty, marginalized and segregated.
To bring light on this community, with my team and the help of the local community, I created an anamorphic piece that covers almost 50 buildings only visible from a certain point of the Moqattam Mountain. The piece of art uses the words of Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, a Coptic Bishop from the 3rd century, that said: ‘Anyone who wants to see the sunlight clearly needs to wipe his eye first.’
‘إن أراد أحد أن يبصر نور الشمس، فإن عليه أن يمسح عينيه’
The Zaraeeb community welcomed my team and I as we were family. It was one of the most amazing human experience I have ever had. They are generous, honest and strong people. They have been given the name of Zabaleen (the garbage people), but this is not how they call themselves. They don’t live in the garbage but from the garbage; and not their garbage, but the garbage of the whole city. They are the one who clean the city of Cairo.”
“Perception offers a rare insight into the life of the Cairo garbage collectors and showcases the process of my most ambitious project to date. The movie provides a fascinating documentation of an enlightening human experience for all involved.”
you can buy el seed perception tickets with this link
Make sure to follow eL Seed if you arent already and theres even a perception book available!
MzRizk presents ‘Perception’ by el Seed & ‘KAYA’ by Lara Köse
Perception offers a rare insight into the life of the Zaraeeb people and showcases the process of contemporary artist eL Seed’s most ambitious project to date. Seed uses his art as an echo of the stories of the communities that he meets around the world and aims to amplify their voices. He finds his artwork being a way of building a link between peoples around the world.
The movie provides fascinating documentation of an enlightening human experience for all involved.
Perception will be accompanied with the short film KAYA (2018)
