Red Vector, 2025 

Acrylic on Canvas

50x50cm 

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Red Vector traces the motion of a single dot across an imagined architectural landscape, a metaphor for balance in motion and harmony within structure. Influenced by Bauhaus geometry and Arab abstraction, the composition transforms a minimal form into a rhythmic visual dialogue between stillness and energy.

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The red circle acts as both anchor and force, generating directional tension like a vector cutting through layered space. Geometric elements inspired by Arab architectural motifs frame this movement, evoking spatial rhythm, depth, and cultural resonance.

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Through the interplay of form, scale, and motion, Red Vector explores how simplicity can embody complexity, where abstraction becomes structure, and geometry becomes emotion. It reflects Marwa Elbadawi’s ongoing inquiry into equilibrium, continuity, and the transcendent relationship between culture and form.

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Marwa ELBADAWI 

 

Marwa Elbadawi is a visual artist, designer, and educator based in Dubai with Egyptian roots. Her multidisciplinary practice explores cultural identity, Islamic metaphysics, and the philosophy of wabi-sabi, embracing imperfection and impermanence as sources of aesthetic and spiritual depth. Working across digital collage, mixed media, and curatorial design, her work reflects a dialogue between heritage, abstraction, and emotion.

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Drawing from her upbringing between Egypt and Saudi Arabia and her academic foundation at Helwan University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, Marwa Elbadawi’s art is grounded in both cultural symbolism and material experimentation. She views texture as memory, geometry as language, and form as a vessel for storytelling, creating pieces that exist between motion and stillness, structure and reflection.

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In addition to her artistic career, Marwa Elbadawi has served as an Assistant Lecturer at the Arab Academy for Science & Technology, where she mentored emerging artists and helped curate academic exhibitions. This experience strengthened her commitment to visual education and deepened her exploration of how art connects education, culture, and identity.

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Her curatorial and artistic work has been presented in institutions and exhibitions across the region, including Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Indian Embassy in Cairo, El-Sawy Culture Wheel, and Cairo Art Space.

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Her recent exhibitions include Transience (Dubai International Art Center, 2025), Whispers of Nature – Celebrating Flora and Fauna (Funun Arts Group, Sharjah, 2025), and Cultural Narratives: Pop & Identity (Cairo Art Space, 2022). Earlier projects such as Fragments of Presence (2020) and Memory & Conflict – Cards of Chaos (2013) continue to inform her ongoing exploration of material, memory, and meaning.

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Now fully dedicated to her independent practice, Marwa Elbadawi continues to create conceptual artworks and design objects that weave together heritage and contemporary abstraction. Through her work, she invites viewers to engage with the quiet dialogue between culture and form, where light, matter, and narrative converge to express balance, energy, and presence.