Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art is pleased to present The turbulent land, a solo exhibition by Egyptian artist Ahmed Sabry, on view from 28/06/2026 to 30/07/2026 at Mashrabia Gallery in Cairo.

The exhibition presents acrylic on wood and acrylic on canvas works depicting a hazy, pale gray world where details barely emerge. Bodies hang in awkward, suspended poses, straining forward yet held back. Empty eyes, frozen emotions. Figures sometimes become caricatures, but they do not provoke laughter. The series follows villagers whose ground vanished beneath them, leaving them stranded in a fight for survival and endurance.

Since 2008, Sabry has studied the media image as a visual and conceptual source and its tense relationship with drawing and photography. Mechanical media record sequences of moments. Using this static source to produce work capable of erasure and addition gives back a human quality. Manufactured images resemble mass products with fixed specifications and large quantities of calculated emotions and knowledge. Drawing and painting remain open to error, flaw, and psychological condition.

Ahmed Sabry is a painter, photographer, and animator, born in Minya in 1982. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Art Education from Helwan University in 2004 and has been active in the local and international art scene since 2002. He has held nine solo exhibitions at Mashrabia Gallery in Cairo and participated in the Youth Salon from 2003 to 2015. His international credits include the Cairo Contemporary Art Festival "Dekaf" (2016), Fentins France (2013), the Bamako Biennale in Mali (2011), Cairo Documenta (2010), Stockholm (2017), the Grahamstown International Arts Festival in South Africa (2014), Art Fair Beijing, China (2009), the Hop Map Exhibition, Belgium (2011), the First International Youth Media Forum (2008) at the Palace of Arts, and others. He is the recipient of the 2007 Youth Salon Award, the 2008 Youth Salon Jury Prize, and a full-time scholarship from the Ministry of Culture (2007–2011). His works are held in the Bragel Foundation collection, Dubai (2015). He has led art workshops at the Gallery and Soma School of Arts in Zamalek, the Arts Space in Maadi, and MDA Studio in Mokattam.