BESKELETAT

Assembled during the pandemic, Beskeletat is a group of artists from Cairo who gather every Friday morning to cycle around central Cairo. Despite the challenges of visiting certain neighborhoods, Beskeletat has found that their collective presence allows them to go anywhere. Though not knowing what it is, they still continue using it.

Riding early in the morning changes the atmosphere. Streets are quieter, traffic is lighter, and the city feels more open, more breathable. Moving together through central Cairo, the group passes through neighborhoods that can feel difficult or tense when entered alone. As a collective, these boundaries seem to loosen. Our presence as a group allows us to pass, to linger, and to observe with less hesitation, even if we cannot fully explain why.

There is rarely a fixed route or destination. We meet, we ride, and we follow what the city offers that morning. Beskeletat does not clearly define itself, nor does it aim to produce a specific outcome. Still, the practice continues. Perhaps because cycling together, in that quiet moment of the week, creates a shared space of attention and trust — one that we keep returning to, even without fully understanding what it is we are using.