Heba Barakat is an Egyptian contemporary artist born and raised in Cairo. She has a bachelor’s
degree in Architecture Engineering from the American University in Cairo. In her work, she
imagines heself as an artist of imaginary spaces, creating a staircase amongst the most
abstract of forms or putting a window in the middle of plain emptiness, which is what merging
between architecture and art helps her to achieve. She takes people, objects and stories out of
their very own designed spaces and sews them into a differently imagined world through digital
art, collage work and painting. Barakat is currently pursuing her master’s degree in museum
studies.