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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

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'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

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  • 'The air is subtle, various and sweet', screening, Guggenheim Gallery, New York, 2022[23]
  • 'The air is subtle various and sweet', solo exhibition, Niru Ratnam Gallery, London, 2021[24]
  • 'Skin Flicks', screening, Tate Britain, London, 2019[25]
  • 'Janus Collapse', solo exhibition, Bluecoat, Liverpool, 2017[26]
  • 'Hydra', solo exhibition, Cell Projects, London, 2014[27]

Select group exhibitions and screenings

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Publications

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  • Synthetic Becoming, edited by Lenka Vesela, published by K. Verlag, Berlin[38]
  • Watch This Space, written by Francesca Gavin,[39] published by Tenderbooks, London[40]

Select press

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  • 'What Is Hospitality in an Era of Crises?', HyperAllergic, 16 February 2023[41]
  • ‘Testament’ Questions the Moments We Memorialize' Frieze, 17 March 2022[42]
  • 'Flags, flowers and futurist film: the Jarman award shortlist – in pictures', The Guardian, 30 September 2021[43]
  • 'The Artists Building a Future out of Mushrooms' Frieze: Issue 218, 07 April 2021[44]
  • 'Under the influence: three artists on how Bruce Nauman continues to be an inspiration', The Art Newspaper, 2 October 2020[45]
  • 'Sites of resistance + sensuality: rolling in the mud of mixed feelings with Adham Faramawy', AQNB, 13 March 2017[46]
  • 'Adham Faramawy' Frieze: Issue 162, 18 March 2014[47]

References

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  1. ^ "Adham Faramawy". Adham Faramawy. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Adham Faramawy". Niru Ratnam. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Adham Faramawy screening at the Guggenheim Museum, New York". Niru Ratnam. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  4. ^ Tate. "Poetry in the Electromagnetic Universe | Tate Modern". Tate. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  5. ^ Tate. "Adham Faramawy: Skin Flicks | Tate Britain". Tate. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  6. ^ "Jarman Award 2017". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  7. ^ "Artists' Film Club: 21st Century Pop". archive.ica.art. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  8. ^ "Bluecoat: Adham Faramawy, Janus Collapse (the juice-box edition)". Art in Liverpool. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  9. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - The Art of Immersion". BBC. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  10. ^ "Adham Faramawy". Film London. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  11. ^ "Adham Faramawy, The air is subtle various and sweet, 2021". Niru Ratnam. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  12. ^ "Adham Faramawy, Proposal for a Parakeet's Garden, 2022". Niru Ratnam. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  13. ^ "Goldsmiths CCA — TESTAMENT". goldsmithscca.art. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  14. ^ "Adham Faramawy, The heart wants what the heart wants, 2021". Niru Ratnam. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  15. ^ "Art Night launches 2021 edition". artreview.com. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  16. ^ "Adham Faramawy: The heart wants what the heart wants". Near Now. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  17. ^ "Adham Faramawy, Studio Visit". Eastside Projects. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  18. ^ "Adham Faramawy, By earth, sea and air they came, 2021". Niru Ratnam. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  19. ^ "Harold Offeh | Home". www.haroldoffeh.com. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  20. ^ "LOOP". Eastside Projects. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  21. ^ "Adham Faramawy, Skin Flick, 2019". Niru Ratnam. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  22. ^ "Adham Faramawy, The stickiness of an unclean break 3/8 (after Nisha Ramayya), 2020". Niru Ratnam. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  23. ^ "Adham Faramawy screening at the Guggenheim Museum, New York". Niru Ratnam. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  24. ^ "Works - The air is subtle, various and sweet". Niru Ratnam. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  25. ^ Tate. "Adham Faramawy: Skin Flicks | Tate Britain". Tate. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  26. ^ "Bluecoat: Adham Faramawy, Janus Collapse (the juice-box edition)". Art in Liverpool. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  27. ^ "HYDRA | Cell Project Space". www.cellprojects.org. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  28. ^ Tate. "All Bodies radiate light | Tate Modern". Tate. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  29. ^ "Queer Earth and Liquid Matters". Serpentine Galleries. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  30. ^ "Back to Earth". Serpentine Galleries. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  31. ^ "Goldsmiths CCA — TESTAMENT". goldsmithscca.art. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  32. ^ "The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory". Serpentine Galleries. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  33. ^ "Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi Goes Online for the First Time". Somerset House. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  34. ^ "I'm here but you've gone | Fiorucci Art Trust". fiorucciartrust.com. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  35. ^ "RA Schools Public Programme: Spring Symposium | Event | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  36. ^ "Silica". Galerie Sultana.
  37. ^ "The Roberts Institute of Art". www.therobertsinstituteofart.com. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  38. ^ "K. Verlag | Publishing | Berlin Synthetic Becoming". k-verlag.org. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  39. ^ "Rough Version". roughversion.blogspot.com. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  40. ^ "WATCH THIS SPACE by Francesca Gavin | Wednesday 8 November, 6-8pm". Tenderbooks. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  41. ^ Volk, Gregory (16 February 2023). "What Is Hospitality in an Era of Crises?". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  42. ^ Morton, Tom (17 March 2022). "'Testament' Questions the Moments We Memorialize". Frieze. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  43. ^ "Flags, flowers and futurist film: the Jarman award shortlist – in pictures". the Guardian. 30 September 2021. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  44. ^ Gavin, Francesca (7 April 2021). "The Artists Building a Future out of Mushrooms". Frieze. No. 218. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  45. ^ "Under the influence: three artists on how Bruce Nauman continues to be an inspiration". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 2 October 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  46. ^ "Sites of resistance + sensuality: rolling in the mud of mixed feelings with Adham Faramawy | atractivoquenobello". www.aqnb.com. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  47. ^ Elderton, Louisa (18 March 2014). "Adham Faramawy". Frieze. No. 162. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
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