Paper Trail

Gypsum Gallery is pleased to collaborate with Saida Al Harakany, founder of Adsum Art Consultancy, for our summer group exhibition entitled “Paper Trail”. The show is exclusively devoted to works on paper and brings together almost 120 new and old drawings and prints by twelve artists living and working in the city of Cairo.

“Paper Trail” is inspired by the immediacy of this intimate and fragile medium, one that is often overlooked in any artist’s oeuvre. From the minimalist, abstract ink drawings to the loose, color monoprints, the works in this show have an introspective streak. They are neither sketches nor studies but artworks in their own right. With an emotional and psychological range that is as varied as the artists themslves, the pieces act as personal records of moments, memories, experiences and places. 

With a wide range of references and variations, whether botanical, textual, geometric or figurative, the works in the show attest to the versatility of the medium in which physical marks imprinted on paper recount compelling stories, some real, some imagined.