Translation: "We have dreams"
As I was looking for the RGB exhibit at the Townhouse Gallery last Sunday night, I entered the wrong gallery and came across this mural. The people pictured are not creating the mural, but in the process of preparing for the next night's fashion show featuring made-in Egypt clothing.
The Spanish artist Eva Mena, who is known by the name Den, painted the mural. She is in Cairo to participate in the Fourth Mediterranean Hip Hop Festival. She was suppose to collaborate with the Alexandrian graffiti artist Aya Tarek, but he had to cancel due to a scheduling conflict.
While this mural was painted inside the Townhouse gallery, the artist is nevertheless foreign. In the post-Revolution artistic spring, should the streets of Egypt be reserved for Egyptians?
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