Youssef Nabil, Self-portrait with the Sea, Sardinia, 2005. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.
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Youssef Nabil’s exhibition No One Knows but the Sky, on view from April 8 to May 23, 2026, has been featured in Cultured Magazine’s list of exhibitions to check out during Expo Chicago.
"Why It’s Worth a Look: Youssef Nabil presents his films alongside hand-painted photographic prints in his first solo with the gallery. The different mediums converge to tell a story about his homeland, Egypt, through clips about the country’s cinematic history and the artist’s own childhood.
"Why It’s Worth a Look: Youssef Nabil presents his films alongside hand-painted photographic prints in his first solo with the gallery. The different mediums converge to tell a story about his homeland, Egypt, through clips about the country’s cinematic history and the artist’s own childhood.
Know Before You Go: Growing up in Cairo, a regularly immortalized location in the cinematic canon, Nabil first encountered art through film, and here casts the medium as its own form of historical record-keeping."
Excerpted words written by Delaney Kim for Cultured Magazine.
