Dalia El Sayed (b. 1986, Cairo) is a painter exploring the emotional landscape of memory and identity. A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo, her abstract compositions use layered textures and restrained color palettes to evoke intimacy, loss, and transformation. (Represented by Morgan Lehman gallery)

El Sayed’s paintings act as emotional archives. Each surface becomes a site of remembrance, traces of gestures and pigments echoing the persistence of cultural identity beneath layers of time.

Relation to the Concept:

Her abstractions express how Egyptian identity survives invisibly beneath changing surfaces — much like history’s continuous undercurrent that the exhibition seeks to reveal her work can serve the visual narrative of transformation: modern cityscape, re-imagined heritage, bridging old and new.