For the second week in a row, this art review is on "Directions", a group exhibition of paintings by Abdel-Aal Hassan, Hend Adnan, Nazli Madkour, Amany Abdel-Bari, Samir Fouad and Faten Al-Nawawi, currently on display at Picasso gallery in Zamalek. In the work of artist Faten Al-Nawawi there is always a depiction of the long and hard journey of man: a journey through history, from history and sometimes to history; a journey between sky and earth. She has a special interest in the human endeavour to achieve balance between the contradictions of life. Her universe is haunted by myth and fantasy. It highlights the surrealism at the heart of the paradox, or the inability to resolve mysteries of life and death. To demonstrate this existential game, she orchestrates a circus scene. Hers is a language that diagnoses power relations and the dualities they imply, nonetheless stressing the idea of life as a journey. She plays on several levels of reality: the actual, visible one; the primitive, invisible one, and (with the brilliant use she makes of Pharaonic and folk motifs and palettes) the one through which fantasy and myth take form. The exhibition runs through 18 May.