Virtualvibes

Building her paintings like someone sorting through a drawer of inherited objects. Deciding what still holds meaning and what might actually be a trap.

Born and based in Cairo in 1998, she works in oil on wood, building on folk aesthetics and the visual language of domestic ritual.

Soliman’s symbols repeat with the insistence of memory: eyes inside ornamental medallions, disembodied ears and hands floating like forgotten traces, circles of women gathered around something vague, snakes looping back around themselves and eating their own tails, a heart trapped inside a labyrinth.
The result is a world that feels familiar and slightly skewed at the same time.

Her work captures the daily events that form us - The rituals we perform subconsciously, the structures we inherit without questioning.

How familiar her work feels is exactly what makes it uncomfortable.
Floral borders and Mother of pearl textures recall family interiors and inherited objects, yet the scenes inside them are off.

Mariam’s work circles around the idea of the “tribe”: family, community, the social bonds that protect us, and sometimes hurt us.
She’s interested in how these bonds react under pressure: conflict, wars, and the destructive instincts inside human nature.

Swipe through this selection of work to enter a journey of her visual logic.
Which one is your favorite art piece?

A museum opened, and Riyadh became its second room.

At the Embassy of Egypt in Riyadh, the opening of the in Cairo was felt as a shared moment.

Ambassador Ihab Aboserie and his wife .sahar gathered royals, diplomats, and cultural figures to honor Egypt’s legacy unfolding anew.

Replicas of Tutankhamun’s treasures, sent from the Grand Egyptian Museum, shimmered under the embassy lights—reminders of a civilization that still speaks in gold and silence. .hassanallam 's curated gifts and ’s symbolic gesture of flight carried that same idea forward: Heritage in motion, crossing borders of geography and time.

That night, Cairo and Riyadh shared a single story.

ما يجري في الفاشر اليوم ليس بعيدا عمّا يحدث في غزة. وجع واحد و عدو واحد، مهما تغيرت الأقنعة.
مدينتان تُحاصران بالصمت و النار، و أجساد المدنيين تتحمل ثمن السياسة و المطامع و الخذلان العربي.
في الفاشر، تم نزوح عشرات الآلاف في الأيام القليلة الماضية.
أكثر من ٢٦٠ ألف إنسان بلا مأوى، غذاء أو دواء، وفي غزة يستمر النزيف بأكثر من ٦٧ ألف شهيد و ملايين النازحين.

What is happening in El Fasher today is not far from what is happening in Gaza.
One pain, one enemy. No matter how many masks it wears!
Two cities besieged by silence and fire, where the bodies of civilians bear the cost of politics, greed, and Arab abandonment.
In El Fasher, tens of thousands have been displaced in just a few days.
And in Gaza 260,000 people are left without shelter, food, or medicine, the bleeding continues with more than 67,000 martyrs and millions displaced.

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From dental instruments to paintbrushes.
journey moves from percision to perception
The Cairo-based self taught surrealist painter and muralist explores hidden corners of human psyche through oil, light and atmosphere.
In his world, Reality gives way to Surreality where figures drift through dreamlike waters, clouds carry memory, and the silence takes shape.
His paintings exist somewhere between emotion and illusion, where surrealism merge into one continuous thought.

His commitemt to art extends beyond his own studio guiding hunderds of students throughout Egypt, UAE and Japan toward their artistic journeys.

Swipe ➡️ through his work to step into the golden hour of subconscious.

And for those in Dubai, you can step into his surreal world at .warehouse.ae where his solo exhibition remains open for just two more days.