Eman Barakat

Eman Barakat was born in Giza in 1988. She graduated from the department of sculpture, Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University in 2011 and received her master’s degree in 2018 in the same major.

Barakat’s work utilizes familiar forms and raw materials like granite and bronze which she reformulates to suit the artistic condition of each work. She depends on the doctrine of abstraction when it comes to there formulation process, particularly her signature animal element such as the elephant and the rat as a representation of stillness and movement in an attempt to show mass and energy as a whole and their relation to the surrounding vacuum.

She participated in various art exhibitions and symposiums such as II Kyiv sculpture symposium 2020, Salt Stone symposium 2020, Venice art fair2020, Bloom group exhibition 2020, Artist under32 2020, General exhibition 2020, Adam Henin Award 2019, Second sculpture salon 2018, youth salon 2018, Aswan sculpture symposium 2018, Association of Fine Arts Lovers exhibition for five consecutive years. She has also participated in many exhibitions at Ubuntu Art Gallery including “Abstract Angles” in 2018 and “Ubuntu Revisited” in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

She has also been a recipient of multiple awards for her work including the 2019 Adam Henein second prize for sculpture, the Cairo Youth Salon, the Hassan Heshmat award in 2014 and 2017 along with the Zakaria Khoneini and the Aida Abd el-Karim awards. Her work is included in private and public collections.

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