Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth, Germany
"Underground", the expression, and it's like this: This room is actually something like Bayreuth’s underground - not just because it's underground and reminds of a subway station, but because it's something to it The unfathomable inherent in its smell, its neglect, the insecurity that reigns there at night and night.The underpass at the lower gate is already a special place, one on which limits are exceeded anyway, be it from the city beyond of the ring over to the city center. Currently, the underpass is still part of the festival "49 degrees. Border crossings "from the Iwarfawahaus. The Egyptian artist Ahmad Nady exhibits his large-format drawings there.

Nady made his way through Bayreuth and spoke with women, who behave quite differently than he had previously thought. "He met incredibly strong, self-confident women who stand and work in their lives," Often Nady took several hours for his interviews, and during the talks he drew the women on his pad.

The result is large-format drawings that are strongly reminiscent of comics. Of course, there is not a cross-section of the female population, not even the halfway representative selection of a dozen women Nady originally intended to portray.