Omar Al Sharif 2018 — Mural. Antigel Festival, Pâquis, Geneva.

Painted on the side of a building in Pâquis — Geneva's multicultural working-class district, a few hundred metres from the UN Human Rights Office — to mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A co-production between Antigel Festival and SHAP SHAP, with the support of the City of Geneva, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Pro Helvetia Cairo, and Fondation Emilie Gourd.

The mural depicts Omar Sharif — Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, three Golden Globes, a César Award. The face is softened graphically, highlighting an androgynous side — a major male icon redrawn as something more tender and unguarded. An Egyptian figure on a Swiss wall, painted by an Egyptian hand, in a neighbourhood built on the daily coexistence of dozens of nationalities, steps from the institution that codified the rights those nationalities share