GCR

GCR

Participating Artist

Aya Eman Abdelbaqi

Born 1993

Aya Eman Abdelbaqi

Biography

Aya Eman Abdelbaqi (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, printmaking, cyanotype, installation, and other media. Her decision to study art emerged from a need to process complex physical and emotional experiences and give them material form, particularly her experiences of high-risk pregnancies and the transition to motherhood. Her work moves between the clinical, sterile world of needles, sensors, scans, and medical equipment and the emotional and sensory memories carried by the body. Through material, image, and space, Abdelbaqi explores the maternal female body as a dynamic site of continual transformation—a space of vulnerability, resilience, fragmentation, memory, and recovery.

Final Project

Selected Works from the Study Period

Portrait

Portrait

2026

Oil on canvas

40 × 50 cm

Untitled

Untitled

2025

Oil on canvas

40 × 30 cm

Untitled

Untitled

2025

Oil on canvas

50 × 30 cm

Partial Control

Partial Control

2024

Mixed media