علاء البنان

Alaa El-Bannan is this year's Arts and Culture co-fellow, Space lab director, and a previous CILAS student. She is currently working on developing her interdisciplinary art practice focusing on creative writing and drawing as a form. She studied media and mass communication, and had worked as a copywriter, an editor, and in the NGO sector for a while. Alaa's now interested in consciousness as a theme, and in experimentation as an approach. She believes in acceptance as a way to deal with the random, chaotic nature of reality, and believes in imagination as a way to expand her life experience. She refuses the distinction between reality and imagination as for her both are two faces of one thing and both feed each other. She daydreams and practices martial arts.