Adham Faramawy Explained

Adham Faramawy is an Egyptian artist, born in Dubai and based in London.[1] Their work spans media including moving image, sculptural installation and print, engaging concerns with materiality, touch, and toxic embodiment to question ideas of the natural in relation to marginalised communities.[2]

They have exhibited and screened their work internationally including at Guggenheim, New York,[3] Tate Modern[4] and Tate Britain, London,[5] Whitechapel Gallery, London,[6] ICA, London,[7] Bluecoat, Liverpool,[8] and Royal Academy, London. They presented a radio show on the body and immersive moving image for BBC Radio 4 in 2018,[9] and were shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award in both 2017 and 2021.[10]

Notable works

'The air is subtle various and sweet' (2020)[11] - Voiced over by the artist the installation is a meditation on cultural belonging, the weight of personal history and the external forces that shape where we end up living.

'Proposal for a parakeet’s garden' (2022)[12] - created for the exhibition ‘Testament’ at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art,[13] Faramawy reflects on the experience of the migrant community by way of a metaphor. The film speaks about the introduction of and growth in number of parakeets. Despite their exotic plumage parakeets are classified as an invasive, feral species. The brightly colour parakeet is now a common sight in parks across the United Kingdom and Faramawy presents their presence as a metaphor for migrants, and more recently refugees, particular those who are people of colour who have come to Britain in increasing numbers in the last fifty years. In the short, four-minute film, Faramawy offers an alternative vision to designating the parakeets as invasive and instead suggests a monument for the displaced in the form of a garden.

'The heart wants what the heart wants' (2021) [14] - Continuing their research into identity, bodies, desire and queering ideas of the natural, ‘The heart wants what the heart wants’ centres on entanglements within multi species ecologies, stories of migration, personal history and ideas of desirability, questioning the different ways a body, behaviour, movement or interaction might be desirable and when it or they might be unwelcome. Filmed at the Wanstead Flats in east London, the work is narrated by Faramawy, with performance and choreography in collaboration with Joseph Funnel, Fil Li and Omar Jordan Phillips.  Supported and first exhibited by Art Night London,[15] along with Near Now, Nottingham[16] and Wysing Art Centre, Cambridgeshire.[17]

'By earth, sea and air we came' (2021)[18] - a video work intertwining the lives of flowers, parakeets and sailors around a river that flows through the periphery of a city, drawing on history, biology, geography and mythology to think through experiences of migration and the relationship the artist, as a migrant and a person of colour, has to ideas of the land and of place.” Filmed along the River Lea in east London, the work is narrated by Faramawy, with performance and choreography in collaboration with Joseph Funnel and Omar Jordan Phillips. Supported and first exhibited by Eastside Projects, Birmingham, as part of the exhibition LOOP, co-curated by Harold Offeh,[19] alongside artists Phoebe Collings James, Will Walid Fredo, Keiken and Samra Mayanja.[20]

'Skin Flick' (2019) [21] - Takes the body as a starting point, using skin as a site to explore ideas of borders, boundaries, and fluid subjectivity. These ideas leak out into Faramawy’s wall-based works such as their series ‘The stickiness of an unclean break’ (2020).[22]

Select solo exhibitions and screenings

Select group exhibitions and screenings

Publications

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Adham Faramawy . 2023-04-17 . Adham Faramawy . en-GB.
  2. Web site: Adham Faramawy . 2023-04-17 . Niru Ratnam . en.
  3. Web site: Adham Faramawy screening at the Guggenheim Museum, New York . 2023-04-17 . Niru Ratnam . en.
  4. Web site: Tate . Poetry in the Electromagnetic Universe Tate Modern . 2023-04-17 . Tate . en-GB.
  5. Web site: Tate . Adham Faramawy: Skin Flicks Tate Britain . 2023-04-17 . Tate . en-GB.
  6. Web site: Jarman Award 2017 . 2023-04-17 . Whitechapel Gallery . en.
  7. Web site: Artists' Film Club: 21st Century Pop . 2023-04-17 . archive.ica.art . en.
  8. Web site: Bluecoat: Adham Faramawy, Janus Collapse (the juice-box edition) . 2023-04-17 . Art in Liverpool . en-US.
  9. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - The Art of Immersion . 2023-04-17 . BBC . en-GB.
  10. Web site: Adham Faramawy . 2023-04-17 . Film London . en.
  11. Web site: Adham Faramawy, The air is subtle various and sweet, 2021 . 2023-04-17 . Niru Ratnam . en.
  12. Web site: Adham Faramawy, Proposal for a Parakeet's Garden, 2022 . 2023-04-17 . Niru Ratnam . en.
  13. Web site: Goldsmiths CCA — TESTAMENT . 2023-04-17 . goldsmithscca.art.
  14. Web site: Adham Faramawy, The heart wants what the heart wants, 2021 . 2023-04-17 . Niru Ratnam . en.
  15. Web site: Art Night launches 2021 edition . 2023-04-17 . artreview.com . en.
  16. Web site: Adham Faramawy: The heart wants what the heart wants . 2023-04-17 . Near Now . en-US.
  17. Web site: Adham Faramawy, Studio Visit . 2023-04-17 . Eastside Projects . en-GB.
  18. Web site: Adham Faramawy, By earth, sea and air they came, 2021 . 2023-04-17 . Niru Ratnam . en.
  19. Web site: Harold Offeh Home . 2023-04-17 . www.haroldoffeh.com . en.
  20. Web site: LOOP . 2023-04-17 . Eastside Projects . en-GB.
  21. Web site: Adham Faramawy, Skin Flick, 2019 . 2023-04-17 . Niru Ratnam . en.
  22. Web site: Adham Faramawy, The stickiness of an unclean break 3/8 (after Nisha Ramayya), 2020 . 2023-04-17 . Niru Ratnam . en.
  23. Web site: Adham Faramawy screening at the Guggenheim Museum, New York . 2023-04-17 . Niru Ratnam . en.
  24. Web site: Works - The air is subtle, various and sweet . 2023-04-17 . Niru Ratnam . en.
  25. Web site: Tate . Adham Faramawy: Skin Flicks Tate Britain . 2023-04-17 . Tate . en-GB.
  26. Web site: Bluecoat: Adham Faramawy, Janus Collapse (the juice-box edition) . 2023-04-17 . Art in Liverpool . en-US.
  27. Web site: HYDRA Cell Project Space . 2023-04-17 . www.cellprojects.org.
  28. Web site: Tate . All Bodies radiate light Tate Modern . 2023-04-17 . Tate . en-GB.
  29. Web site: Queer Earth and Liquid Matters . 2023-04-17 . Serpentine Galleries . en-GB.
  30. Web site: Back to Earth . 2023-04-17 . Serpentine Galleries . en-GB.
  31. Web site: Goldsmiths CCA — TESTAMENT . 2023-04-17 . goldsmithscca.art.
  32. Web site: The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory . 2023-04-17 . Serpentine Galleries . en-GB.
  33. Web site: 2020-05-20 . Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi Goes Online for the First Time . 2023-04-17 . Somerset House . en.
  34. Web site: I’m here but you’ve gone Fiorucci Art Trust . 2023-04-17 . fiorucciartrust.com.
  35. Web site: RA Schools Public Programme: Spring Symposium Event Royal Academy of Arts . 2023-04-17 . www.royalacademy.org.uk.
  36. Web site: Silica . Galerie Sultana.
  37. Web site: The Roberts Institute of Art . 2023-04-17 . www.therobertsinstituteofart.com.
  38. Web site: K. Verlag Publishing Berlin Synthetic Becoming . 2023-04-17 . k-verlag.org.
  39. Web site: Rough Version . 2023-04-17 . roughversion.blogspot.com.
  40. Web site: WATCH THIS SPACE by Francesca Gavin Wednesday 8 November, 6-8pm . 2023-04-17 . Tenderbooks.
  41. Web site: Volk . Gregory . 2023-02-16 . What Is Hospitality in an Era of Crises? . 2023-04-17 . Hyperallergic . en-US.
  42. Web site: Morton . Tom . 2022-03-17 . ‘Testament’ Questions the Moments We Memorialize . 2023-04-17 . Frieze . en.
  43. News: 2021-09-30 . Flags, flowers and futurist film: the Jarman award shortlist – in pictures . en-GB . the Guardian . 2023-04-17 . 0261-3077.
  44. News: Gavin . Francesca . 2021-04-07 . The Artists Building a Future out of Mushrooms . en . Frieze . 218 . 2023-04-17 . 0962-0672.
  45. Web site: 2020-10-02 . Under the influence: three artists on how Bruce Nauman continues to be an inspiration . 2023-04-17 . The Art Newspaper - International art news and events.
  46. Web site: Sites of resistance + sensuality: rolling in the mud of mixed feelings with Adham Faramawy atractivoquenobello . 2023-04-17 . www.aqnb.com.
  47. News: Elderton . Louisa . 2014-03-18 . Adham Faramawy . en . Frieze . 162 . 2023-04-17 . 0962-0672.

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