Informed by translation, languages, theater, literature and my family’s making-traditions I never learned,
I look at the ideas of illusion and attachment through a multifaceted, dislocated lens.

My work may be rooted in photography but I am constantly looking for new formats and materials to carry my ideas.

I’m interested in collapsing time/space in search of home. How can one carve out their own when one is twice removed (in time/space) from it?

Once I start working on a project, I embrace accident and failure. My practice is ever-evolving, ongoing and is influenced by my restlessness. Look again!

Ebti is a multidisciplinary artist, a self-taught photographer and a translator living between Cairo and San Francisco. She has a BA in German studies from Cairo University, Egypt, an MA in translation and intercultural studies from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany and an MFA in Fine Arts from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.

Portrait: Amy Osborne