In the shadow of the pyramids Art exhibition is a 'modern archaeology'

A dismantled chariot, recreated in the form of two unruly metallic horses next to half-submerged wheels, and giant flowers popping out of the sand: visitors to the pyramids of Giza are being greeted by a series of artworks as Egypt stages its annual contemporary art exhibition at the 4,500-year-old Unesco world heritage site.

- Saeed Kamali Dehghan

Every autumn for the past four years, the pyramids have become the unusual backdrop to a vast open-air exhibition held in the arid expanses and shifting sands of the surrounding plateau.

The aim this year of Forever is Now, which for the first time includes artists from Asia, is to turn visitors and artists into "modern-day archaeologists, using creativity as their tools to uncover the hidden layers of meaning embedded in the ordinary", according to Art D'Égypte, the organisation behind the show.