Khaled Hafez

It is a form of Pop Art, yes, that relies on both evocation and distortion. I am interested mainly in present-day icons of the three received taboos: sex, religion and politics. These are then presented in such a way as to question and play with their meanings…

In his paintings Egyptian artist Khaled Hafez pastes contemporary commercial imagery on a painterly stage to heighten the quarrel of abstraction versus figuration…

Works

Mighty Hands Of Gemmis

Since September 11, 2001 I have been continuously collecting and using stock images of social and political nature in my mixed media works; images of riots, confrontations, masses in fury, images of combat, war, personal pictures of “terrorists” and those of “simple” people of North African and Middle Eastern features…