Eman Barakat

"Glyph II" Red Granite Sculpture 7" x 15" x 10" inch by Eman Barakat

2018

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 utilises 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 the reformulation 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 has participated in various art exhibitions, namely the Adam Henein Prize Exhibition in 2019, Aswan International Sculpture Symposium, The General Art Exhibition, The Cairo Youth Salon in 2018, Ostraka Arts in 2015 as well as Dai Arab Youth Festival, Luxor’s International South Art Salon and The 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.