Islam Allam

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A series of digital portraits exploring the face as a site of emotion, identity, and symbolic transformation. Music serves as both inspiration and guide throughout the process, shaping the mood, rhythm, and intuitive decisions that emerge while improvising each portrait.


Through digital painting, the series moves between figuration and abstraction, using color, distortion, and symbolic forms to interrupt conventional portraiture and open space for ambiguity, error, and the unexpected.


Ongoing Series, 2019-2024

2024

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This portrait was improvised while listening to [Serotonin – Kangding Ray]

2023-2022

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Improvised while listening to “Tzusing – Digital Properties”

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This portrait was improvised while listening to "Loscil – Rotator"

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This portrait improvised while listening to “Samuel Organ-Guidance”

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This portrait improvised while listening to" Alva Noto – HYbr:ID oval p-dance"

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Similar to the concept of in music by musicians to create new music based on original music of another artist, like the album “async – remodels”. or the idea of creating artwork by reformulating another artist’s original work, as Francis Bacon did with Van Gogh’s self-portraits. I did this experiment, which is a portrait production based on one of the works of the Egyptian painter Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar.


This portrait improvised while listening to “Demdike Stare – Bardo Thodol”

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This portrait improvised while listening to "The Gaslamp Killer – In the Dark…"

2021-2020

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This portrait improvised while listening to “Okay Vivian – The Cost Buried Beneath”

untit,AaaaaLaaaaaA-eld This portrait improvised while listening to " Cliff Martinez – Chang and Sword "

Digital stones to achieve the balance in a digital portrait 1/ untit,SawSssAnNnn-eld This portrait improvised while listening to " Ólafur Arnalds&Nils Frahm – b1 "

Digital stones to achieve the balance in a digital portrait 2 / untit,YoUuuSeEee-eld This portrait improvised while listening to "Gidge – eyes open"

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This portrait based on the first digital image made on a computer in 1957 by Russell Kirsch, The image showed researcher Russell Kirsch’s baby son Walden Kirsch.


This portrait improvised while listening to " Philip glass – Prophecies "

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First time to work on a portrait under a theme that i know before executing and really enjoyed this experience. The portrait is based on the dramatic character of the real Dennis Rader in the series Mindhunter


This portrait improvised while listening to "Murcof – Una"

2019

untit, ShHHhooO-eld This portrait improvised while listening to " Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto – Trioon I "

untit,YassSsMm-eld This portrait improvised while listening to "Driftmachine — Observant Sirens"

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This portrait improvised while listening to " GregHaines – The Whole"

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This portrait improvised while listening to " Kangding Ray – Sub.Res "

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This portrait improvised while listening to " arktah – Mounira "

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This portrait improvised while listening to " "James Place – Courage To Ask "


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This portrait improvised while listening to " Gidge – eyes open"

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This portrait improvised while listening to " Pole – Moos"

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This portrait improvised while listening to "Rival Consoles – Haunt"

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This portrait improvised while listening to " The Nightcrawlers- beckoning beacon "

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This portrait improvised while listening to " The Durian Brothers – Weggeputscht "

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This portrait improvised while listening to "Tzusing – Digital Properties

Selected Exhibitions


A selection of works from this series has been presented in exhibitions and public programs, where the portraits were encountered as printed, installed, or screen-based works.


THE 4TH PASA Festival By Bitglim

Suwon Art Center, Gyeonggi, South Korea, 2019

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The Kitchen Sink Project, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA, 2019

Cairo Prints Exhibition 3rd edition

Cairopolitan, Cairo, Egypt, 2022

MUAFNFT NFT Auction

By Galeri Muaf, Joepegs Marketplace, 2022


MASR WALLADA 2

ArtTalks Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, 2026

Featured in Suboart magazine issue 7, 2023