Villa Azad

Waleed Kanoush | Games of Chance
Untitled l 2025
Acrylic & Pen on canvas
98 x 98 cm

The exhibition will be on view from 15 September – 28 September 2026 at Villa Azad.

Opening Night
Waleed Kanoush | Games of Chance

📅 Tuesday 15 September 2026

⏰ 7–10pm: Exhibition preview

📍 Villa Azad

The exhibition will be on view from 15 September – 28 September 2026 at Villa Azad.

Waleed Kanoush | Games of Chance
Untitled l 2025 l Acrylic & Pen on canvas l 119 x 59 cm

The exhibition will be on view from 15 September – 28 September 2026 at Villa Azad.

Waleed Kanoush | Games of Chance
Untitled l 2025
Acrylic & Pen on canvas
118 x 98 cm

The exhibition will be on view from 15 September – 28 September 2026 at Villa Azad.

Waleed Kanoush | Games of Chance
Untitled l 2026
Oil & Pen on canvas
200 x 150 cm

In this exhibition, Kanoush invites us into the game not to answer, nor to judge, but to look and question. Moving through a space shaped by uncertainty and possibility, the exhibition leaves us with a lingering question: do we make our own choices, or do we simply accept the outcomes of what appears to us as chance?

The exhibition will be on view from 15 September – 28 September 2026 at Villa Azad.

INSTALLATION
Waleed Kanoush | Games of Chance

📅 Tuesday 15 September 2026

⏰ 7–10pm: Exhibition preview

📍 Villa Azad

The exhibition will be on view from 15 September – 28 September 2026 at Villa Azad.

Esraa Zidan | Home, Once Again

‎نلتقي من جديد
We Meet again
Acrylic on canvas, 2026
100 x 150 cm

Born in Egypt in 1990, Esraa Zidan has developed a distinct visual language centered around women and the human body. From the beginning, her work focused on one subject: women. The body, in her practice, was never approached as big or small, but as a space beyond judgment, moving away from ideas of body shaming and fixed standards of beauty.

Her earlier works are known for their vivid, colorful compositions, where women appear joyful, at ease, and fully present within their own worlds. These bodies became a way of writing her own visual diaries, capturing moments, emotions, and states that are both personal and shared.

A graduate of the Faculty of Applied Arts in 2012, Zidan obtained her master’s degree in Human Anatomy for Artists in 2016, and in 2021 she received her PhD on unusual body proportions. She also worked as an assistant lecturer at Helwan University, where she taught human anatomy, art marketing, and branding, and continues to lead workshops within and outside Egypt.

Over time, her focus shifted. The body is no longer just a visual presence, but becomes a carrier of emotions. Changes in proportions and distortion emerge not as stylistic decisions, but as a way to express internal states.

Since her first solo exhibition, The Neighbors of the Rainbow at Azad Gallery in 2018, Zidan has participated in numerous exhibitions locally and internationally, including in Egypt and the UAE and Lebanon.