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Olivia Alexandra Fahmy

Olivia Alexandra Fahmy is an art historian and curator. She holds a Master's degree in art history and history from the University of Lausanne and a Master's degree in Contemporary Art Theory with a focus on critical approaches from Goldsmiths College University of London. She is the author of texts published in scientific catalogues, art magazines and exhibition catalogues. Head of publications at the Centre de la photographie Genève in 2018, she co-founded and co-directed the art space Tunnel Tunnel in Lausanne with the eponymous collective from 2015 to 2022. Since 2019, she is the curator of the collection of African Contemporary Art and of the Diaspora at the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art in Geneva as well as independent curator.

The Exception that Proves the Rule?

Nazli Madkour, Nawal El Saadawi and Women and Art in Egypt
by
- Olivia Alexandra Fahmy
In the late 1980s, because they knew and trusted each other, Nazli Madkour, an Egyptian artist active in the cultural scene, and Nawal El Saadawi, a psychiatrist, writer and feminist political activist, agreed to publish a book that revisited and shed…

The Exception that Proves the Rule?

Nazli Madkour, Nawal El Saadawi and Women and Art in Egypt