About
El-Khao is an artist working at the intersection of memory, material, and myth. Rooted in ancient techniques and driven by a deep interest in unfiltered expression, the raw immediacy of children’s drawings, displacement, and fractured time, his work explores how fragments can hold meaning.
With a background in fashion, art, and design—shaped by a BA at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London) and an MA at the Royal College of Art (London)—El-Khao creates mosaics, encaustic surfaces, and tactile compositions that blur the line between artifact and narrative.
At the core of his work is the logic of the fragment, the collective unconscious of displaced identities, a search for home through fragments.. Childhood memories surface like buried relics. Inspired by Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual, he assembles mosaics as if solving a puzzle with missing pieces—never to complete the image, only to gesture toward it. His glass shards, gold foils, and waxen surfaces do not reconstruct the past—they haunt it. The results feel both sacred and raw: part reliquary, part protest, part lullaby.
El-Khao’s aesthetic is unapologetically tactile in a world that forgets how to feel.