Canvas magazine published a One on One interview with the Egyptian sculptor Khaled Zaki by Dana Husseino on 29 October 2025. It begins with his unusual route into sculpture: after an MBA, he took a Master's in Restoration at the Faculty of Archaeology at Cairo University because he wanted to engage with heritage, especially ancient Egyptian culture, then travelled to Italy and asked to learn by working in the workshops, twelve hours a day, alongside artists and technicians.
Much of the conversation turns on the Resurrection series, in which the body appears both broken and healing. Zaki recalls sculpting The Sitting Patriot (2011) during the Egyptian revolution, a figure caught between rising and collapsing, but says the series truly began with the Palestinian situation and with his own history: born in Suez, he was displaced after the 1967 war and returned only after 1973, so that the idea of breaking, disassembling and reassembling has been with him since birth. He describes representing Egypt at the 2013 Venice Biennale as everything collapsed politically at home, and his shift from classical Mediterranean forms toward the abstraction he finds in Egyptian heritage. He is now carving new works inspired by seashells, returning to his first pieces made in Italy in 1988 to 1989 with greater maturity.
Khaled Zaki also studied sculpture at the Al Khonany Museum of Art in Giza. He is represented by Tabari, and his Resurrection works feature in Be The Stone at Frieze Abu Dhabi.
