Illustrative model — an approximation, not a scan of the original object.
1990
Print by Chant Avedissian
- Material
- Photographic print on aluminium
- Dimensions
- 28 × 39 cm
- Findspot
- Cairo
- Discovery
- Bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2019 with support from Art d’Égypte.
- Held by
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Inventory number
- ME.10:2-2019
One of nine photographs in which the Cairo artist Chant Avedissian documented stencil designs he made in the late 1980s, before destroying the original stencils.
Avedissian’s work mixes ancient Egyptian, Mamluk and folk motifs, and comments on popular culture and politics in Egypt.
Certainty: Established
Chant Avedissian was born in Cairo in 1951 to Armenian refugee parents; he studied art in Montreal and Paris and then returned to Egypt.
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London “Chant Avedissian, photographic print, ME.10:2-2019” collections.vam.ac.uk