{"id":248,"date":"2026-03-22T21:56:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iesa.sapikdesign.com\/itn\/mireille\/?p=248"},"modified":"2026-03-23T21:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T20:48:38","slug":"dalia-el-sayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iesa.sapikdesign.com\/itn\/mireille\/dalia-el-sayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dahlia El-Sayed"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"248\" class=\"elementor elementor-248\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5658180 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5658180\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-09629d2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"09629d2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/iesa.sapikdesign.com\/itn\/mireille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Dahlia-El-sayed-portrait.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-88\" alt=\"Dahlia El Sayed portrait\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iesa.sapikdesign.com\/itn\/mireille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Dahlia-El-sayed-portrait.jpg 350w, https:\/\/iesa.sapikdesign.com\/itn\/mireille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Dahlia-El-sayed-portrait-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iesa.sapikdesign.com\/itn\/mireille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Dahlia-El-sayed-portrait-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ea34c7 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2ea34c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><strong>Dalia El Sayed<\/strong> (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)<\/span><\/p><p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">El Sayed\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Relation to the Concept:<\/span><\/p><p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Her abstractions express how Egyptian identity survives invisibly beneath changing surfaces \u2014 much like history\u2019s continuous undercurrent that the exhibition seeks to reveal her work can serve the <\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">visual narrative of transformation: modern cityscape, re-imagined heritage, bridging old and new.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c65564b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c65564b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s paintings act as emotional archives. 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