b. 1991, Cairo, Egypt; lives and works in Cairo, Egypt
Amina Kadous received her Bachelor in Fine Arts from Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine arts in Boston. Her work tackles concepts of memory and identity. She believes in the ephemerality of experience. She believes a Photograph is an object that holds memories and meanings, keepsakes that give life. Her work is a linkage between the past and present through the layers of time as they fold and unfold. The exploration of time serves, for her, as a means of understanding who she is as a person. Characterizing herself as an explorer of ideas, she is driven by the spirit of inquiry as she seeks to comprehend the meanings and hidden ambiguities of lives, not her own, through the interactive nature of viewer, photographer, object and environment. She is driven by experience as a woman and an Egyptian. That is her signature: her work, like time, evolves. Her work has been exhibited internationally. She participated in the 12th edition of the Bamako Biennale of Photography and was awarded the Centre Soleil d’Afrique Prize for her project, “A crack in the Memory of My Memory”. She was awarded a grant from Magnum Foundation and Prince Claus Foundation, was one of the top ten finalists for the Everyday projects grant for her current ongoing project “ White Gold,” and was shortlisted this year for the Contemporary African photography prize.
