In pics: 3 Egyptian young artists portray mental illness in sculptural projects – Egypt Today

In pics: 3 Egyptian young artists portray mental illness in sculptural projects – Egypt Today

CAIRO – 10 July 2022: Three graduates of Sculpture department at Faculty of Fine Arts, Mansoura University, have portrayed different psychological illness and needed support for patients with depression and mental disorders in spiritual and beautiful art craft. The three female artists have directed their graduation projects to educate the community about the importance of psychological and social support, each in their own art creation. Sahar Azmy’s piece titled “Lifeline” and it represents three characters who together represent the life collar, including troubled persons and rescuers. She explained that she tried to show the elements of harmony, unity and interdependence through the position of these people until the unity relationship between all the characters of the work becomes clear, starting from the personality of the savior and the people helping him to complete the rescue process and between the personality of the depressed person. Titled “I lost… then,” the art piece by Artist Heba Sherif portrayed the effect of the feel of loss on the person, describing through the pain and agony the person feels when he loses a beloved one. Sherif’s sculptural project succeeds to express the experience a person with broken heart for losing someone close to him,