This year, the emerging and established contemporary Egyptian and international artists are exploring how historical periods in the art scene have fostered conversations around emergent forms of visuality through the years, with artists merging different eras in their work, practicing past methods through their contemporary language and experimenting with juxtaposed discourses. CIAD’s exhibitions aim to offer the public a chance to engage, observe and contemplate the flowing fluidity of artistic practices across time and culture, viewing the structural and metaphorical overlap of our increasingly growing metropolitan city.