Wrapping/Unwrapping History, UCL, Institute, London 2022
A collaborative project between the artist’s Mina Nasr & Rania Elhelw, funded by UCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London, England.
This is an art project by R&M Project that is inspired by animal mummies, their forms, and their meanings, to the ancient Egyptians. It is also inspired by mummies that were found by British excavators and went on long journeys that started from Egypt and until they ended up in museums around the world. It is a social engagement project that generally aims to raise the awareness of the public, especially of children, about sacred animals in ancient Egypt, their mummies, and their journey from Egypt to the British and world museums. The topic was chosen to attract children for their emotional attraction and attachment to animals. Moreover, the project aims to raise a public discussion, where it is quite understood how humanity benefit a lot from science and archeology through all the tests done over all sorts of mummies, but should we eventually put any dead bodies on display for the public just because they are thousands of years old, or should we better let them rest in peace? This art project is our tribute to all these animal mummies, where it will represent such inspirations and questions visually in an installation that uses digital drawing and woodworking.
