Rasha Ragab first exhibition was at the Art Complex in Zamalek revolving around the human face as being a subject that raises the question of both form and its opposite. That was when Rasha Ragab drew close to the smell of the soil of the Nile in her paintings. The faces belonged to people we had known in our own time, as if they were narrating memories from the book of “The Nubian City”.
Rasha Ragab possesses the will of alteration, the harmony, the rhythm, and the savagery made sophisticates by blends of surfaces, she has done what the innovators from Fouad Kamel to Cannan have done, she done as “El Gerco” has done and even as what was done by “Enzo Cucchi| in famous painting “Rome”: but she was saved by her unique talent.
She follows in the footsteps of “Saint Saens”, when he stopped with his boat by the southern bank of the Nile more than a hundred years ago and collected the sonic rhythm and variegations then put in his music.
This is indeed a creative context which makes it difficult for us to trace and monitor all its sources, for she is indeed unlike any other artist of her own generation, alone in her own language, and yet a disciple by her imprint in her artistic painting which overflows with her ancient heritage.
By: Ahmed Fouad Selim
Egyptain Art Critic