Born and raised in Cairo, Heba Barakat is an Egyptian contemporary artist with a BA in Architecture Engineering from the American University in Cairo.
About her work Barakat says "I have always imagined myself an artist of imaginary spaces, I like creating a staircase amongst the most abstract of forms or putting a window in the middle of plain emptiness. Anything and everything around us can be an imagined space. One can imagine themselves walking in their drawer of socks, or in a bowl of popcorn or having a swim in their perfume bottle. This is what merging between architecture and art helps me do. It gives me the power to take people, objects and stories out of their very own designed spaces and sew them into a totally different imagined world through digital art, collage work and painting." Barakat is currently a creative arts executive for corporations at TAM.Gallery.
