About the Exhibition

It all started on a night when immense cosmic emotion was expressed in love.

When the possibility of acceptance was birthed, and everything looked and felt different

- it was all to the better.

On a night when glittering stars shed their light on the corals beneath them - when

limestone cliffs were engulfing them all around

Before, unacceptance was assumed but at that very moment it was in the past. The

cards had changed, and reality shifted.

A bond between two people, two brothers, expanded and ever since continues to grow.

This exhibit is an effort to keep that memory alive and a way of honoring what was felt

by reliving that night.

It’s also an effort to transmit the beauty of that night - the surroundings, the lagoon,

human promises, and the artist’s metamorphosis with the intention to remind ourselves

to be mindful of environmental as well as emotional preservation.

The otherworldly creatures depicted in the artworks reflect how amplified the artist felt

and how that moment shook him to his core and took him to a reality he only dreamt of.

About the Artist

Shereif Eldesouky is an Egyptian mixed media artist and painter currently based in Bangkok. Born in Saudi Arabia, Eldesouky grew up between Saudi and the UK. He moved to Egypt during his high school and university years where he earned his B.A. in integrated marketing communications & a minor in fine arts from the American University in Cairo. His professional background started in creative advertising, branding, and events management in Cairo, moving to Jordan where he worked in tourism destination marketing. He later shifted his career to becoming a freelance artist when he relocated to the Philippines and then Washington D.C. where he worked at the National Gallery of Art. Eldesouky creates immersive surreal worlds vivid in color and imagery. His painting technique reflects a broad range of emotion through its fluidity as it draws inspiration from the natural world.